Submitting data to txt file from textarea

[VicHost]

Hey folks,

 

I thought this would be simple but obviously not. I can get the data to display in the textarea from the text file. That's not an issue. The issue is, updating the text from the textarea and saving it in the file, while keeping the text in the textarea.

Basically, I want to create a personal notepad inside the site I am making.

 

Here is the code I am using:

 

<form action="?admintext.txt" method=post>
<textarea name="file_content" class="textarea1"><? include "admintext.txt"; ?></textarea><br/>
<input type=submit name=submit value=Update>
</form>

 

Can anyone help with this? I tried loads of tips I found from Google but none worked.

[Username:]

Uhhh, don't think this will work considering I've never tried it but....

$visitor_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$myFile = "admintext.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$text = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);

print("<input name='name' value='$text' type='text'>");

 

just a thought

 

tested it. It didn't work  :'(

[awjudd]

if ( isset ($_POST ['file_contents']) ) 
{
    file_put_contents ('file.txt', $_POST ['file_contents'] );
}

[VicHost]

if ( isset ($_POST ['file_contents']) ) 
{
    file_put_contents ('file.txt', $_POST ['file_contents'] );
}

 

Confusion sets in mate. Where am I putting this?

[awjudd]

On the page that is being posted to ... I just noticed that it is being posted to a .txt file ... so you are going to have to change that to a separate php file.

 

~judda

[VicHost]

Thanks mate. Same issue.

The text from the text file is showing fine inside the textarea. However, if I type something into the textarea and click on Update, it just goes back and displays the text that was oreviously there.

[awjudd]

Does php have write permissions on the file?  Can you post your updated code (with the code for the file_put_contents) on here so we aren't pulling at straws?

 

~judda

[VicHost]

No problem.

 

Here is the form:

 

<form action="?admintext.php" method="post">
<textarea name="content" class="textarea1"><?php include "notes.txt"; ?></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>

 

admintext.php:

<?php
if ( isset ($_POST ['file_contents']) )
{
    file_put_contents ('notes.txt', $_POST ['file_contents'] );
}
?>

 

notes.txt is blank.

[DavidAM]

The name of your textarea is not "file_contents" it is "content. So the page code would be:

if ( isset ($_POST ['content']) )
{
    file_put_contents ('notes.txt', $_POST ['content'] );
}

[VicHost]

The name of your textarea is not "file_contents" it is "content. So the page code would be:

if ( isset ($_POST ['content']) )
{
    file_put_contents ('notes.txt', $_POST ['content'] );
}

 

Nah. Still not updating it mate.

http://dano.id.au/admin/index.php?admintext.php

 

You will see what I mean.

Note in the textarea it says Style. It's there because I manualy put it into notes.txt So getting the text from notes.txt into the textarea is not an issue. It's submitting text through the textarea to be placed into notes.txt and then displayed in the textarea is the issue.

 

[VicHost]

Fixed!

 

Above the HTML tags of the page, I have the following:

<?php
if ( isset ($_POST ['content']) )
{
    file_put_contents ('notes.txt', $_POST ['content'] );
}
?>

 

The form is now:

 

<form method="post">
<textarea name="content" cols="" rows="" wrap="virtual" class="textarea1">
<?php
include 'notes.txt';
?>
</textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>

 

Works like a charm.

[awjudd]

In your form, you had action = '?admintext.php' which wasn't going to post there as you expected, it was going to post to the current page and have ?admintext.php in the URL .

 

~judda

[VicHost]

In your form, you had action = '?admintext.php' which wasn't going to post there as you expected, it was going to post to the current page and have ?admintext.php in the URL .

 

~judda

 

Yeah realised that afterwards. Put it there at first to stop admintext.php from opening in the browser when I clicked save. Then realised that action wasn't needed.

Thanks for your help too.