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Get GET value from URL and save it in a file

I want to get a GET value from the url and store it in a file. I just can't get it in the format which I want it.

Code:

<?php

    $emailaccount = $_GET['email'];
    $emailaccount .= '\n';

    file_put_contents($file, $emailaccount, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
    echo 'done' . PHP_EOL;

?>

URL looks like:

www.website.com/index.php?email=account@gmail.com

My *.txt file should look like:

1account@gmail.com
2account@gmail.com
3account@gmail.com

But my file doesn't look like this, every value is on the same line, why?

Solution

  • Changing $emailaccount .= '\n'; to $emailaccount .= "\r\n"; should do it.

    EDIT

    Here is why: \r\n is used for system compatibility and double quotes are needed in order for PHP to parse it as newline characters instead of a literal string.