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PHP

Posted by jne
jne
12,613 Points

Save an array from form to array in a file

Hi! I want to save my form submissions in an array using the $_POST variable. The array is kind of stored there but only for a session, I want it to be stored in that array forever. How do I do this? I looked at "file_put_contents" but that makes my .php file useless ass I can't use any variables or something, because it seems to be just a .txt instead of a .php. Even though it is stored as a .php.

Anyone?

1 Answer

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Joakim,

If you don want to use a database you have 2 options:

You can save the data in a json file with json_encode / json_decode.

or

You can save it in a text file

file_put_contents($filename, '<?php $arr = ' . var_export($arr, true) . ';');