Writing a textarea to a txt file

ddrfreek

Alright, so I haven't found a fix for this in months (although I have admittedly been neglecting it). Still, I have a very simple code that by all means, should work. For some reason, it just isn't happening.

		$fh = fopen("/doghousecomics/dhcstylesheet.css", "w");
		fwrite ( $fh, $_POST['style'] );
		fclose($fh);
		header( "Location: styleeditor.php" );
		exit();

Excluding the entire POST (which is coming from another file), that's all there is to it. I tried echo $_POST['style'], and it showed up properly. For some reason it just won't save. And yes, the file permission is 777. Is there anything I could possibly be doing wrong? When I hit submit, it just reloads the same page with the textarea on it, and the original text in it, unedited. Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.

rajug

Please i have not tried to writ into a file but i suggest you to open the file in append mode.

<?
if($_POST['Submit']){
 	$fh = fopen("dhcstylesheet.css", "w");
    fwrite ($fh, $_POST['style'] );
    fclose($fh);
    header( "Location: test.php" );
    exit();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <p>
    <textarea name="style" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>
</p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

I tested this and its working properly wiriting into the file css.

NogDog

I suspect the file pathname is the problem. "/doghousecomics/dhcstylesheet.css" on a UNIX/Linux system would mean that the "doghousecomics" directory is directly under the root directory on the current disk (referred to as "/" on such systems). It is not the same as pathnames used in HTML where the leading slash indicates the html document root directory. What you probably want is something like:

$fh = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/doghousecomics/dhcstylesheet.css", "w");

To help debug, you might want to do something like:

$fh = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/doghousecomics/dhcstylesheet.css", "w") or
      die("Unable to open file for writing");

ddrfreek

Actually, it's supposed to be under the root. Although when I'm done, it will be under a different directory for each user (it's part of a member based system). The textarea and process files are in the /member directory, but for now I'm testing out the file with only one specific user. But, just in case, I changed it to http://www.doghousecomics.com/doghousecomics/dhcstylesheet.css which is the entire, accurate URL.

ddrfreek

Sorry rajug, I don't really know what you did differently.

rajug

I am very much sure that my code that i posted earlier is working fine (means that wrote into my css file as it is in the text area).

Try with your css file into the same directory what i have changed. But this change would not affect as well.

Is it still not working for you ddrfreek?