Writing input fields to a .txt file not working

LugNut29

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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 16

Writing input fields to a .txt file not working

Aug 15 '13, 12:33 PM

Hi All,

I am trying to write the name="fname" & name="age" to a .txt file, but it's not writing those two things to the file.

Code:

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IUTF-8"?>'; ?>
<!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 name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/catalog.js"></script>
<title>Catalog</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="frm1" name="myForm" onsubmit="return (validateForm() && checkRadios())" action="thankyou.php" 

method="post">First name: <input type="text" name="fname" />  Age: <input type="text" name="age" />  <input 

type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="button" onclick="formReset()" value="Reset form" />
<br />
</body>
</html>

<?php
$iName = $_POST['fname'];
$pAge = $_POST['age'];
$data = "$iName | $pAge\n";

$fh = fopen("db\orders.txt", "a");
fwrite($fh, $data);

fclose($fh);
?>

Code:

<?php
$iName = $_POST['fname'];
$iAge = $_POST['age'];
$data = "$iName | $iAge\n";

$fh = fopen("db\orders.txt", "a");
fwrite($fh, $data);

fclose($fh);

Thanks,
T

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Luuk

Recognized Expert Top Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2012

Posts: 1043
#2

Aug 16 '13, 03:30 PM

rewrite this:

Code:

$fh = fopen("db\orders.txt", "a"); fwrite($fh, $data);

to:

Code:

$fh = fopen("db\orders.txt", "a"); if ($fh) { fwrite($fh, $data); } else { echo "could not open file..."; }

just to make sure there are sufficient rights for opening this file.....

Last edited by Luuk; Aug 16 '13, 03:32 PM. Reason: code edit...
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