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Oddball · Mar 21st, 2006, 11:22 AM

Hi all, just a query for a friend of mine.

I know there is a way that you can pass user defined variables into PHP, and then store them as a file? For example, if you had a form like this:

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<form action="foo.php" method="POST">
Please Enter Your Name: <input type="text" name="name">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Or whatever. And then you can have something like this (foo.php):

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<html>
<body>

<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>!!! What kind of a name is that?

</body>
</html>

So, is there a way you can get that $_POST["name"]; to write to a file?

Thanks for you help guys! :banana:

Infinite Recursion · Mar 21st, 2006, 1:02 PM

look into file, fopen, fputs and fclose... as soon as you obtain the var from $_POST[] you can open a file and write the var to it.

Oddball · Mar 21st, 2006, 2:09 PM

Oooooh, thank you very much monsieur.

Mar 21st, 2006, 11:22 AM	#1
Oddball Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Storing variables to a file? Hi all, just a query for a friend of mine. I know there is a way that you can pass user defined variables into PHP, and then store them as a file? For example, if you had a form like this: (Toggle Plain Text) <form action="foo.php" method="POST"> Please Enter Your Name: <input type="text" name="name"> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form> <form action="foo.php" method="POST"> Please Enter Your Name: <input type="text" name="name"> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form> Or whatever. And then you can have something like this (foo.php): (Toggle Plain Text) <html> <body> <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>!!! What kind of a name is that? </body> </html> <html> <body> <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>!!! What kind of a name is that? </body> </html> So, is there a way you can get that $_POST["name"]; to write to a file? Thanks for you help guys! :banana: __________________ There are 10 types of people in this world: Those that understand binary And those who don't

Mar 21st, 2006, 1:02 PM	#2
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	look into file, fopen, fputs and fclose... as soon as you obtain the var from $_POST[] you can open a file and write the var to it. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Mar 21st, 2006, 2:09 PM	#3
Oddball Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Oooooh, thank you very much monsieur. __________________ There are 10 types of people in this world: Those that understand binary And those who don't

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Storing variables to a file?