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PHP

Posted by Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Create a file from a form input using PHP

Hello can someone help me, I need to create a file from a form input using php.

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

edit: I changed the tag from General Discussion to PHP

3 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

Pretty broad question, but basically you would POST the values from the form to a page that would process the $_POST variable and write it's contents to a file.

The basics are fopen(), fwrite(), fclose() .

You can also use the all in one file_put_contents

Basic PHP File handling

Yorick Toma
Yorick Toma
742 Points
Yorick Toma
Yorick Toma
742 Points

Or is this user trying to generate a form using PHP in that case its just as easy as:

<?php

echo '<input type="text" name="example" id="example" />';
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Thanks.