PHP :: Posting Information From A Form To A Text File

Form To Text File
I don't know anything about PHP, ASP, CGI, all I can do is use Microsoft FrontPage to edit html. But I have been searching the internet for a script (any laguage) that can send an html form to a text file. But I need the new data to replace existing data in the text file every time I submit new information.

Is this possible in PHP or any other language? I’m hosted on a UNIX server with php installed and I have access to my cgi-bin and all I need is this little script to complete my website.

Editing Text File With A PHP Form
I am trying to do something with PHP that i am sure is pretty easy. But not sure myself how to do it.

I have a file that i want to pull into a simple HTML Form text field. From that field the person can just add in content or remove content.. Click "Update" .. And it will write the new content out.. Overwriting the old file if need be.

Form Post To Text File
I have a form that posts to my php file which in turn writes to a text file. The way I'm doing is probably far from efficient or the right way, but it's the first thing i've ever written and I have to get it done.
The way it writes now is it just puts all the form input next to each other in a text file. I want each field to be delimited or on new line so I can read it easily. Here's a snippet of my code:

<?php>
$filename = 'orders.txt'
$fp = fopen($filename, "a");

$string4 = $_POST["email"];
$string5 = $_POST["street1"];
$string6 = $_POST["street2"];

$write = fputs($fp, $string4);
$write = fputs($fp, $string5);
$write = fputs($fp, $string6);

fclose($fp);?>

CURL Form Posting To Self Referencing Form Action
I've successfully used CURL to maneuver around and through sites
but a new site I've been trying to work with has got me stumped.

To retrieve the data I'm trying to get a login is required. If
you go to any page in the "member" area without logging in you
get directed to a https connection and hit login.php (ie: you
end up at https://www.domain.com/login.php). The problem, I
believe, lies in the fact that the form on that page references
itself in the form action tag.

The action tag in the form is "/login.php" and nothing I've tried
has been successful in getting CURL to actually submit the data
and get me logged in. Not surprising really since you'd normally
point CURL to the action target to pass form data.

The things I've tried so far without luck are:

* Hit the main site page to pick up the session cookie then go
to one of the "member" only pages

* Gone directly to one of the "member" pages to get redirected
to login.php

Both attempts end up simply returning me the contents of the
login.php page which, obviously, doesn't help or do any good.

What isn't clear from the CURL documentation with PHP is whether
or not the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS get passed to pages after a redirect
takes place. I suspect they are but the fact that login.php
refers back to itself seems to be the real problem.

If anyone has any ideas on how to convince CURL to get me past
login.php or any other suggestions on things I could try I would
very much appreciate it.

Deleting A Line Of Text From A Txt File From A Form
How can i delete a line of text from a .txt file using a form?

because i have a form right now that saves information from a form to a txt file for news, now i need to know how to make it so i can delete it from a form.

also, if you know how, how do you overwrite lines of text in txt files from a form?

Form Data Inserted Into A Text File
I am wondering if it would be possible to create a form and using php have the form data inserted into a text file. The data would have to be inserted in a given way.

Form Posting
1. How can I now the url that posting the form? ex: I make a php page name poster.php. There is a form that has action to recipient.php. Then I need check that the form is surely posted from poster.php.

2. Can I post a form from to the other site that has different host? How it could be?

Form Posting
i have a form that points to a document on my local site, like:

<form action="test.php" method="post">
<input type=hidden name=value1 value="something">
<input type=submit value=submit>
</form>

now, i would like to post the form data to the test.php file, from
another php file (let's say test2.php)! how to do that?

i cannot call http://localhost/test.php?value1=value1 because the method
is POST (it doesn't work)?

Form Data Not Posting
I was reading the forums and have not found the answer and could use some help. I am a novice and am learning how to do this out of neccesity for my non-profit org. I have a database with incidents that we react to during emergencies. I want to be able to have the users call up the record via ID (that works), change the status and/or details and save update mysql. It is just not saving the data. PHP Code:

Posting Form Fields
I have a form like the one below. Upon submit I would like to self post
to the same page but have the original $_POST data( which was posted to
this page from another ) also be sent along with the new form field
data. How can I achieve that? Thanks.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>">
<table>
<tr>
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
....
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
<th><input type="submit" value="Add" name="add"</th>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Form Not Posting Variable
I have a form which has a select box form and a text box form. for some reason I can't get the Select box to pass the variable to the php file PHP Code:

Form Posting Difficulty
I'm doing a login form and i am trying to get it to post to a page that
would vary based on the username given. I have figure out how to
display all the info once it is posted. I mean i know how to select it
from the db but other than that i'm kinda at a dead end. so far i have
the following code snibblets:

Form Login

<html>
<head>
<title>login</title>
</head>
<form method="post" action="main.php?user=$_POST[username]">
// basic login form here with username and then username text box and
then password and then password box and then submit button.
// the name of the username field is username, name of password field is
password and then submit button field is submit.

Display page

Posting A Form To Another Script ?
Is there a way to "post" a form to another php script? For example
input.php retrieves some user variables then posts the results to
another script , say form.php?

I know this can be done using perl's LWP by creating an agent. Let me
know if this makes sense or not? I know I can use GET, but I want to
avoid GET for some other reasons.

Posting To Php Without Html Form
I am quite familiar how to create a php page that POSTS or REQUESTS variables sent by an html form

HOWEVER, I am wondering if it there is a way I can post variables to another php page or page in general, with php, and skip the form all together,

for example:

I have this page that POSTS information from an html form
it make $id = $_POST['id'];
this page is called formprocess.php

now what i want to do is instead of having to use the html form to actually submit this data to formprocess.php, i want to submit this data with php

I have a page called send-data.php i want this page to send the 'id' variable straight to the formprocess.php page with no html form.

Displaying Information From A Database In A Text Field,
I am trying to create an admin page, but before I get anywhere near that, I need to understand how to get data froma database to show up in appropriate form fields *text, textarea, etc...*

I am able to get content from my database to show up in my template, now I want to create a page that allows a user to click on a link for which they want to edit the information (name, and bio) So I want that page to show up with a simple form, a text field displaying the name, and a textarea displaying the bio information, so that they can modify it and save it to the database. how do you get the information to show up in the form fields? Code:

Posting Form Data To Two Php Scripts At Once
How do i post the form data to different php files at once. I tried the
following code but it doesn't work. the data is sent only to the first
php file.

<form method="post" action="insert.php" action="mail.php">
Email<input type="text" name="email" value ="" size="20" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

Is there a solution?

Libcurl Form Posting Problem
I've been trying to write a short script using curl w/ php but can't
figure something out:

I'm simply trying to login to a website using a posted user/pass combo
to an html form (login.php) that, if correct, sends a Header("Location:
success.php").

The problem I'm running into is when I successfully login, i'm watching
the logs and it's actually executing success.php but after that's done
the screen just refreshes and stays on login.php... does this have
anything to do with the session variables that are written to tell the
system that I should be logged in?

Does this make sense? Below are my opts.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
$curl_output=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

echo $curl_output;

Form Suffers From Premature Posting
I have created an HTML form that has the form action set to:

<form action="forms_orderconfirmation.php" method="get" name="FormName">

My intention was to create a confirmation page with a submit button that the client would select after confirming that their information was correct. My problem is that the information gets posted to my email merely by linking to the confirmation page. It does not wait for the clients final approval. In fact the submit button does not submit anything... but going to the page does. code:

-> How To Read A Form Variable Before Posting? <-
is there a way to read the content of a form variable before
a POST?

I have a form with a "duplicate" button which opens a new form
with most of the fields filled with the values of the calling one.
To do so, I pass the id of the form to be duplicated.
Example:
- I have a form with "Number = 1234567" in a "numform" edit field.
- Duplicate has a href=/duplicateform.php?id=1234567
- then the "duplicateform.php" reads id with a GET['id']

This is easy as I come from a displayed form that retrieves its
values via a SQL statement and with a specific "number" reference.

Now, once I am in this new form, I have a save button to save all
values, including the new "Number" the user would type in, say
"22222222". The save process works correctly via AJAX and saves the
record using a POST action.
But then, I still have my "duplicate" button which should now
point to href=/duplicateform.php?id=22222222
How can I get this 22222222 value from within the form itself?
I have to get it from the "numform" field, but how can I do this?

it would be something like
href=/duplicateform.php?id=<?=[value_of_field_number]?>

with value_of_field_number being the actual value of that edit field.

Posting PDF Form Data To MySQL
I am working on a script that will take information submitted from a pdf form and store the field data to a given mySQL table. I just cant figure out what is wrong with my script. I am able to get the data from the pdf form, and set it as a variable so I can work with it in php. It is displaying the proper data when I echo() it, and I get no mySQL errors. It looks like everything should work, but when I check my database, nothing has been updated....

Posting From A Form Without A Submit Button - How?
Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">'
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>'
echo '</form>'
echo '<p>permanent DB updated'
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Posting Form Data To Two Scripts At Once
From: "Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: posting form data to two php scripts at once
Date: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:06 AM

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PHP Event Calendar Posting Form
I'm using the basic PHP event calendar tutorial that is on this website, and I made a form to add the events. The problem is that the date isn't posting right into the MySQL. For the date it says: '0000-00-00' instead of what I inputed. Code:

Posting Form Variable Using Header()
I know I have seen it somewhere but cannot find how to do it right now.

How do I use header to submit post vars "without" a form.

The company I work for is using a 3rd party email marketing company (until I can get the time to build a system to bring it in house), and this company is working with me to keep the form, thank you and error page aspect on our site. I need to take the variable from the form and process them to do some validation and then send these post vars off to their page so it can be inserted into a database. They don't do any validation on their side with this setup so I want to do it on my side and use header() to submit the post vars.

Form, Posting Multiple Fields
I have a product list page, users can check the product then go to an e-mail form, that lists the products they checked.

On this, they can then chose a quantity for every product, how do I make it so when they send the e-mail, it gets the quantity for each product (using PHP mail, to send)?

The field would be:
<input type="text" size="4" maxlength="4" value="1" name="quantity">

But that wouldn't work for multiple ones? Would I use a "foreach" statement, somehow?

Posting Local File Info To A Php File!
I have a script that I run locally and im trying to get the info to post to a php file so that I can view it in a browser. What I need to know is how to set up the receiving php to post it to the .html . Now I thought it went along the line of creating the php file and putting it on the root of the server then running the local script against a that php info file and it would dump the info to a browser but it wont work like that (I'm guessing cause it's a local script and not on the web)

I know this line is sending it to the .php in that directory but I don't know how to set up the receiving php I guess is my problem.

gosub phpsend www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com /xxxxx/xxxxxxxxx.php %sendstring

I guess what I need to know is whats the best way to post the received data to a browser after the script runs. Or to set up the receiving php file as for outputting it I can create the page I just need to know how to receive it .

Posting Form List Multiple Values ?
how to get the values using post from a multiple list form when more than one value is selected ?.. is it possible ?

Posting To A Form With Image Verification With CURL
this code keeps posting the wrong image verification code, to the form, because when it loads the form again to post the code that I retrieved the image verification code, is now changed

How can I do this successfully with curl? If you have any experience with using curl functions in php you CAN help me on this one....

Security Issues With Posting Form Contents To Server?
I'm currently reading a php book that attempts to declare the security hazzards of not screening a form's content before allowing it to be posted, whether to a database, text file, or otherwise. Honestly, I still don't get what the problem is.

Lets say magic quotes is turned on. Could someone list the major things I should still be doing to prevent security problems? For example, the book says to use htmlspecialchars(), though how does allowing the user to enter HTML tags compromise anything? The data simply gets posted as is to a database, then output as is Maybe an annoying JavaScript is output, but hardly a security breach to the server itself as far as I can tell.

Blank Response By Curl When Posting Form Data
Here is my code, and the problem:

$st="...(string to post is formed from different variables read from
file)...";
$lngth=strlen($st);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
$fp = fopen("example_homepage2.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, $lngth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $st);
$page2=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

Posting Data To Another Form And Getting Handle Of The Opened Window.
I have posted a form to a PHP file in a new window with target attribute. My
problem is that my application should not allow user to post the form again.
User should close the window and then only (s)he can post the form again. Can we get the handle of the opened window?

If we use window.open then we will get the handle of that window but I am unable to post data with window.open.

Any idea on posting data to modal windows. Not as parameters but as $_POST.

Curl: Posting Form Variables Results In Redirection
I'm using the curl functions in php to scrape the wan ip address from my
home router (the router is an SMC product). This is a two step process:
1. post the password value to the login.htm page
2. capture and parse the content from the status_main.htm page

On the SMC's login.htm page there is a form with the following elements:
<form name=tF method=post action=login.htm>
<input type=password name=pws>
<input type=hidden name=page value=login>
<submit value='LOGIN'>

Here are three test cases - only the first two work as expected. I need to
understand why I got that third response... posting the variables causes a
the SMC to give me a redirection to index.htm which does not exist?

COMMAND LINE TEST (returns login.htm and status_main.htm accurately):
curl -d page=login.htm -d pws=mypassword http://10.10.10.1/login.htm
curl http://10.10.10.1/status_main.htm | grep 'wan_ip'

PHP NO-POST TEST(returns login.htm accurately):
$ch = curl_init("http://10.10.10.1/login.htm");
$strIP = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

PHP POST TEST (returns an unexpected result):
$ch = curl_init("http://10.10.10.1/login.htm");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "page=login&pws=mypassword");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$strIP = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print "";

Blank Response From Curl When Posting Form Data
Here is my code, and the problem:

$st="...(string to post is formed from different variables read from
file)...";
$lngth=strlen($st);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
$fp = fopen("example_homepage2.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, $lngth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $st);
$page2=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

I tried both with and without POSTFIELDSIZE option, with same result.
This code works fine for strings smaller than 800 characters (actually
795 or so), but my regular string is just under 13000 characters.
I have uploaded the script to 5 webservers (including my development
machine with Win XP , PHP 5 and Apache 2.2.) and it only works on one.
The rest return a blank page to stare at on the curl post.
Is this some configuration issue, or a curl issue?

Saving Form Information
Say I have a webpage which takes in many user inputs through a form. Once i
click the submit button in the bottom the information is sent to the server. I
fill in the user inputs and would like to save the webpage with in input data
filled before submitting. Is it possible to save the webpage with user inputs
filled?

Pass Form Information
I have a question on how to pass information from a form. I am building a simple order form for this site. I am not using a database because the person that this is for doesn't want to use a database. On the form I built a function to display the different type of products taken from the array.

Each product has a Qty box and when I loop the array I put a counter in it so I can name the Qty, type, and price fields. Example: qty0, type0, price0 - qty1 Code:

POSTing Data To A File On A Different Server
I'm facing a new problem right now. I need to POST data to a file, which is:

~ on a different server
~ protected with .htaccess

I need to do this automatically, not with a form. i.e whenever I load script.php it POSTs the data to that file I'm talking about.

Removing " And ' When Posting To File
I wrote a script that posts the contents of a form to a file but if you type something in the form with a " or a ' then it posts it to the file as " and '

For example, if i typed in:

leave's really "annoying" slashe's

it would print to the file as:

leave's really "annoying" slashe's

this is my code: PHP Code:

Posting A File To A Site With Curl
How do you post a file to a form with curl?

PHP Form Keeps Resending Information On Reload.
I have PHP form that is basically a contact page when the user clicks on submit. I have the page update with your message that says it has been sent, but now if the user clicks on reload it ask to resubmit the information over again. And that's where i want to stop this so when the user clicks on reload it will not resubmit the information again. How can this be done?

Adding User Information To A Form
I need to be able to take some user details on one page and then be able to put the information gathered onto another page that already contains another form that has been created by a javascript cookie program.

Thing is i need the initial user information captured to be 'pasted' in to the final ordering page and to remain there (so that more products can be added) without the user having to re input their details again.

I have just started with PHP and know that i can set up a form and that PHP can print the variables from the form , but how do i get those variables to remain fixed in the next form and be able to let users go to other pages within the site without losing the data?

Form Passing Information When Submitting
I have a form that pulls mysql data to build a drop down menu, and then to obtain the page reload for a series of check boxes. When I sumbit the page I do not carry over the first value selected in the drop down. Instead I get the number associated with that particular field. just as an example: localhost/form.php?=4 Code:

Saving Form Information Into Mysql
I am looking at a way to store a list of ids from a form. What I have is a form in php that lists a group of devices that I need store in a table in a mysql database. This form is dynamic in length.

---- Sample Form ----

Device #1
Device #2 - SELECTED
Device #4
Device #5 - SELECTED
Device #6
Device #7 - SELECTED
Device #8 - SELECTED

---------------------

So I want to take 2, 5, 7, 8 and store it into a database so I can recall it later and make a report on the items selected in the form. Would an array work in this situation? What type of solution would work for this?

Passing POST Information Without A Form
I have no clue if this is possible, and if it is, how to do it. Basically, I am creating a vote server system for my school, there is a central server with IIS, MySQL and PHP 5 on it, and I need to write all the pages that will get the information and display it, allowing the students to vote. I have the index page, which is nothing more than the login page, at least for now. When the student enters his / her student ID, the database checks if it exists by using this query:

mysql_query('SELECT count(*) FROM `students` WHERE `snumber` = ''.$sid.''');

if the number is 1, the ID exists, if it is 0, it does not, simple. I will then transfer the person to vote.php, which will get the person's first and last name and display it at the top, then display all the vote information, and if they exist, poll questions as well. MY question is this, how would I go about transferring the person from index.php (where their student ID is validated) to vote.php where they will be allowed to vote, and also passing their student ID in a POST variable? I don't want to use vote.php to validate becuase I don't want the person to accidentally be able to vote without entering proper information. I also don't want to pass their student ID through GET for obvious reasons. IS there anything I can do?

Displaying Information In A Update Form
I can display the information in a table. But now I need to display it in a form, so I can edit it and then upload it to the database. I have the form from my upload page, But I can not seem to get the information to appear back in it. Code:

Sending Form Information And An Attachment To My Email
Okay here is my deal. 4 to make my website. I made one page ask for user information and they attach a file. I need to know how to have the file and the info on the form to my email address! Can someone please help!?

Cannot Read Information From Form Using POST Or GET ($_Post Is Empty)
I am having problems in my php code. I am relatively new to php but I
know some basics.

This is the problem:

when i try to echo some information that is typed into form back to
the screen i get absolutely nothing. It seems like $_POST['name'] is
an empty string, along with $_POST and $_GET['name'].

I looked around to see if someone else had the same problem and found
that some people's code didn't work because of IE6. but i also tried
mine on Netscape and i got the same problem.

So why is $_POST empty after posting information. Even $_GET was
empty.

all of those returned empty

echo $_POST;
echo $_POST['name'];
echo $_GET['name'];

here is the code:
the code was originially meant to send an email but i commented the if
statement out to see why it wasn't working

<html>
<head><title>Feedback</title></head>
<body>

<?php

// Handle POST method.
//if ($_POST)
//{

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

// Compose simple text message:
$message = "Message from $name
($email)

Comments:

$comments";

// Send message to bob@microsoft.com
mail("email@email.com", "Feedback", $message);

Posting Form Data And Also Allow To Download Form Data
i have a client that whats to post form data to a database but he also wants users of the script to download it aswell how will i got about doing this i thought about it that i could make it save it into a txt file then echo the download link is there any ideas? because to post it to a txt file it would be posting 2 places is there a way to do this? Code: