[RESOLVED] Storing Text Area Content in a Text Document Using PHP and Javascript

[mbrown174]

Hello
I was hoping someone could help me. Im trying to store the content of a textarea to a file called preview.txt. However my current script doesnt seem to work. Any pointers? The textarea has the name homepage. Thanks in advance!

<?php function preview()
{ $preview = '<script language="JavaScript"> document.getElementsByName("Homepage").value </script>' ;
$file = fopen('preview.txt', "a");
fwrite ($file, $preview );
fclose($file); }
?>

[sfullman]

don't like to reply when I don't have an answer but this one will probably stump everyone - can you redescribe? here's my best stab:

function write_field_to_file($fieldName, $fileName){
   $addTo=stripslashes($_POST[$fieldName]); //this is a global variable, use stripslashes if needed b/c of magic quotes
   $fp = fopen($fileName, "a");
   fwrite ($fp, $addTo);
   fclose($fp);
}
//call it
write_field_to_file('preview.txt', 'homepage');

you were writing a javascript string vs the posted value of the text area - you can't do that

[mbrown174]

Managed to get it working. I had never done a preview function before, so this is a first for me.
Thanks again!