I try to save $_POST from a <form> into a .txt file. If i click on the submit button, my code will save only the $date variable, and not $date & $hour.
This is my form in "form.php"
<form method="post" action="save.php" id="formID">
<input type="text" name="Name" placeholder="Name" id="nameFieldID">
<input type="text" name="Hour" placeholder="Hour" id="hourFieldID">
<input type="submit" name="" value="" id="submitButton">
</form>
This is the code in my "save.php"
<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.utf8");
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$date = date("d.M Y");
$time = date("H:i:s");
$name = $_POST["Name"];
$hour = $_POST["Hour"];
$file = "nameAndHour.txt";
$handle = fopen($file, "a");
$details = fread($handle, filesize($file));
fclose($handle);
$handle = fopen("nameAndHour.txt", "a");
fwrite($handle, $detail);
fwrite($handle, $date, "\t");
fwrite($handle, $time, "\t");
fwrite($handle, $name, "\t");
fwrite($handle, $hour);
fclose($handle);
include('form.php');
?>
Could anybody help me, to get the $_POST variables in the my .txt file? What am I doing wrong?
Firstly, make sure the (text) file exists before attempting to write to it and has proper permissions to write to, otherwise you will receive the following warning:
Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0
You then need to replace all commas for , "\t" with dots . "\t".
That is why you're getting the following warning(s):
Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given
Rewrite:
<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.utf8");
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$date = date("d.M Y");
$time = date("H:i:s");
$name = $_POST["Name"];
$hour = $_POST["Hour"];
$file = "nameAndHour.txt";
$handle = fopen($file, "a");
$detail = fread($handle, filesize($file));
fclose($handle);
$handle = fopen("nameAndHour.txt", "a");
fwrite($handle, $detail);
fwrite($handle, $date . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $time . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $name . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $hour);
fclose($handle);
include('form.php');
?>
Footnotes:
You could also check to see if the file exists, using file_exists() with a conditional statement.
Example:
if (file_exists("nameAndHour.txt")) {
// execute code
...
}
else{
echo "File does not exist.";
}
Another thing. About your last line:
fwrite($handle, $hour);
You should add a "\n" for it so that there is a carriage return inserted after the last entry, otherwise your file will be written in one long line.
fwrite($handle, $hour . "\n");
"Is there also a way to put the details in a table? Can I use HTML?"
Edit: (a quick HTML table example)
To write data in an HTML table, you can use something like this:
$table1 = "<table>";
$table2 = "</table>";
$tr1 = "<tr>";
$tr2 = "</tr>";
$td1 = "<td>";
$td2 = "</td>";
fwrite($handle, $table1 . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $tr1 . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $td1 . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $date . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $time . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $name . "\t");
fwrite($handle, $hour . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $tr2 . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $td2 . "\n");
fwrite($handle, $table2 . "\n");
will write out, and as an example:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
28.May 2015 21:41:35 data1a data1b
</tr>
</td>
</table>