Form To File Example

This is an example on how to extract the values that are entered in an HTML form and save these into a tab-delimited text file on the server. The date & time and the IP-address of the user submitting the form are also stored in the file.

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"); echo("Comment: ". $theComment ."
"); echo("Name: ". $theName ."

"); $fileName = "mydatabase.txt"; $file=fopen($fileName,"a"); // Open the file with "a" access to append data fputs($file, $theComment."\t"); // Append the comment + a tab to the end of the file fputs($file, $theName."\t"); // Append the name + a tab to the end of the file fputs($file, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\t"); // Append the IP address + a tab to the end of the file fputs($file, date("m/d/y H:i:s") ."\n"); // Append a timestamp + a linefeed to the end of the file fclose($file); // Close the file echo("

Your comment has been stored in the database.

"); echo('

View the database file

'); } ?>

See:
Form Access Introduction for info on how to process the data in the form
File Handling Introduction on how to store data in a text file
Displaying current date and time on how to get the current date and time
IP-Address Detection on how to get a users IP-adress

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