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Posted by Curtis Watson
Curtis Watson
Courses Plus Student 356 Points

HTML Forms to print to text file

Okay, so I've made my form using the tutorials posted here. I would like the data inside the form to be saved to a text file on my server computer.

I had considered using PHP to e-mail it, however I can't quite get it to work, and I'd rather it just save a new text file. Same thing for using

<form action="MAILTO:xxx@xxx.com">

If you know the video I should watch, or have a solution I would be very grateful.

I'm guessing it's something to do with JScript, but I'm unsure

2 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hi Curtis, I don't think Treehouse has a video specifically in regards to HTML form to a text file. However, below I have included a script from Stack Overflow.

<form id="some" name="someName" method="post" action="/ur/url/to/post">
   <input type="text" id="some1" class="someClass" value="" name="fileWrite"/>
   <iput type="submit" value="submit" class="submitClass"/>
</form>

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
if(isset($_POST['fileWrite']) && !empty($_POST['fileWrite'])) {
      $fileWrite = $_POST['fileWrite'];
}
if($fileWrite) {
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file"); //Make sure you have permission
    fwrite($fh, $fileWrite);
    fclose($fh);
    exec('/your/command /dev/null 2>/dev/null &');
}

—Stack Overflow

Curtis Watson
Curtis Watson
Courses Plus Student 356 Points

I'm assuming this is JavaScript yes?

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

It's PHP and most likely the best solution. However, below are a few other ways using JavaScript. The last one uses Node.js, although, I'm not sure exactly how to implement that.