Writing info to txt

[krazy]

Is there anyway to make a form(which i already have made) that will write the values(info entered) into a txt file on the server?

edit
or create a html file into a .htaccess directory with the info

[skrlin]

Here's the documentation on how to create/open files in php.

Start there and post any questions you may have.

[krazy]

heh
$handle = fopen ("/path/to/file/test.txt", "w");

How will that line know what i want it to write into test.txt ?

[Wired]

All that line does is open the file for writing

[nsr81]

Suppose your form has only one field, "name" and the output needs to go into a file, "test.txt", here is code for that:

<?
$name = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']);

$fp = fopen("test.txt","a");  
// a is for append, as opposed to w, 
// which will overwrite the entire file 
// every time you open it.
fwrite($fp, $name."\n"); // one name per line.
fclose($fp);
?>

[krazy]

ahh yes, thank you very much, seems exactly like what i need, ill try it and edit this post as to if it works or not

[tibberous]

Depending on your platforms / editors the end of line character might cause problems. If your file ends lines with a square (or other weird character), try different ascii characters.

The ascii values for the end of line characters are:

Windows chr(13) . chr(10)
Linux chr(10)
Mac chr(13)

Might do good to set a couple vars. Being a C++ guy I have always had a fondness for

$endl = chr(13) . chr(10);

[krazy]

decided to go with mail() seems easier, thx to all that replied.