Hello i want to make a submit action for a form so that i can write to a file what is in the textare box. Please i need help a.s.a.p. thanks

its quite easy you have the form page and have it post to a new page.
form.php

<form action="add.php" method="POST"> 
<textarea rows='3' name='textbox' cols='45'>
<input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Enter">
</form>

the use this code to process this data.

add.php

PHP Code:

<?php
$text = $_POST[textbox];   // Gets the text from the previous page
$file = "document.txt";       // Make sure the chmod is 777(everyone read and write)
$open = fopen($file,'a+');  // Opens the file and places the insert point at the end of the file
fwrite($open, $text)           // Writes the text to the file
fclose($open);                   // Closes the file
echo "Done";


?>

yes thanks i just couldnt get it working for some reason =]

ok i get an error on line 6

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /www/f/fgc4l/htdocs/___/includes/dailychange.php on line 6

sorry forgot the ; after fwrite($open, $text)

so it should be fwrite($open, $text);

lol omg i cant believe i didnt see that

ok how would i have it over write the content already there?

To overwrite the contents of a file, just open the file using the w+ instead of an a+

i.e. change:
$open = fopen($file,'a+');

to

$open = fopen($file,'w+');

ok sounds good thanks =]

hehe is a list of all the commands of fopen

'r' Open for reading only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file.

'r+' Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file.

'w' Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'w+' Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'a' Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'a+' Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'x' Create and open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file. If the file already exists, the fopen() call will fail by returning FALSE and generating an error of level E_WARNING. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it. This is equivalent to specifying O_EXCL|O_CREAT flags for the underlying open(2) system call. This option is supported in PHP 4.3.2 and later, and only works for local files.


'x+' Create and open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file. If the file already exists, the fopen() call will fail by returning FALSE and generating an error of level E_WARNING. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it. This is equivalent to specifying O_EXCL|O_CREAT flags for the underlying open(2) system call. This option is supported in PHP 4.3.2 and later, and only works for local files.