create a file based on form input (php?)

[Colin-uk]

Hi all,

im wanting to create a html file based on whats entered into a form

ive searched google for almost 2 days now and not found anything,
ive searched the php manual too but cant find any function there for creating html files..

...or maybe im just not good at searching :\

any help would be appreciated

thanks
-c0lin

[Asterix]

Ok colin here are two cases for ur question and two solutions based on php:

U want to create a file on harddisk:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

Now if u want to send a html file as reply for form submission then,
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php

[Colin-uk]

Thanks for te reply asterix,

i know how to create a file with fopen()

but i dont know how to take the file name from a form entry..

[Asterix]

well that..

u can do that like this say u have a form like this

<form action="act.php" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="file">
<input type"submit">

Then to get filename in act.php

<?php
echo $_GET["file"];
?>

[Asterix]

or try this

http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php

[greffov]

why would you want to create a html file? isn't PHP meant to do that for you on-the-fly?

[Colin-uk]

thanks for the replys

i tried adding the $_GET["file"] to my existing php script like below:

PHP Code:

<?php

$server_path = "./"; //Path to log directory 
$log_entries = $_POST['title']. "<br /><br />" .$_POST['comments']. "<br />" .$_POST['div']. "\n"; 
$fp = fopen($server_path .$_GET['filename']. "a") or die("Error, Cannot create file."); 

if ($fp!= false) 

{ 

fwrite($fp, $log_entries); 
fclose($fp); 
print("done") or die("Error!");
} 

?>

but i get this error:

Warning: fopen() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in /home/colinuk/public_html/test/add.php on line 5


whats wrong?
(its probably somthing obvious)

[greffov]

hehe...
fopen($server_path .$_GET['filename']. "a")

the dot in front of "a" should be a comma (,), then it works...

However GET probably won't work here, use $_POST instead, but why not helping yourself and using $_REQUEST for all? ($_REQUEST is a union of $_GET and $_POST)

[Colin-uk]

it worked

as you can see im still gettin used to PHP, even a simple replacement of a dot with a comma confused me enough to post lol


thanks for the help

[greffov]

all start with asking, so don't bother m8!

[Colin-uk]

well i got it to create the file...but now it wont write the other fields into it (title, comments and div) :\

[greffov]

did you use $_REQUEST instead of $_POST ?

[Colin-uk]

nope

[greffov]

{hint}

[Colin-uk]

i changed the form to submit with POST instead of GET and it workes perfectly now

thanks for all the help everyone, much appreciated