Write text file php

Question

Im using php.

I want to write a php page to get parameters from another page and write to a file text. And:

If already have file text, it write to a new line
Each day create one file text

Example:

register.php

<body>
    <form action='process.php' method='GET'>
        Name: <input type='text' name='name'/>
        <br/>
        Age: <input type='text' name='age'/>
        <br/>
        <input type='submit' value='SUBMIT'/>
    </form>
</body>

process.php

$name = $_GET['name'];
$age = $_GET['age'];

$file_handle = fopen("testFile.txt", "w");
$file_contents = "name:" . $name . "age:" . $age;

fwrite($file_handle, $file_contents);
fclose($file_handle);
print "file created and written to";

How can I do this?

You want new file for everyday ? – Rikesh Jan 29 '13 at 03:38 — Rikesh, Jan 29 '13 at 03:38
why are you not using a data base for this? – Jan 29 '13 at 03:49 — , Jan 29 '13 at 03:49

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '13 at 03:49

Use the file_get_contents() and file_put_contents() functions.

Example:

    $file = 'output.txt';
    $buffer = 'my new line here';

    if (file_exists($file)) {
            $buffer = file_get_contents($file) . "\n" . $buffer;
    }

    $success = file_put_contents($file, $buffer);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 29 '13 at 04:22

If you want to create new file for everyday , you can create txt file with current date date('d-m-Y').".txt". so you can easily identify file by date.

try below code, i have made some change in code and test it.

<?php

$dateFile = date('d-m-Y').".txt";

$dataString = "name:" . $name . "age:" . $age."\n";
$fWrite = fopen($dateFile,"a");
$wrote = fwrite($fWrite, $dataString);
fclose($fWrite);
print "file created and written to";

?>

If file already created so you can store new record in new line by "\n", \n must be in "" quatoed.

sachleen · Answer 3 · 2013-01-29T03:47:55.497

From the fopen docs:

write:

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.

append:

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.

So you want to append, not write.

If the file doesn't exist, it'll try to create it. So just give the file a unique name that changes with the day. See date docs for examples.

$filename = date("m.d.y"); // 03.10.01

Hitesh · Answer 4 · 2014-03-04T07:28:30.793

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file_write_php

   <?php
     $File = "YourFile.txt"; 
     $Handle = fopen($File, 'w');
     $Data = "Jane Doe\n".PHP_EOL;; 
     fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
     $Data = "Bilbo Jones\n"; 
     fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
     print "Data Written"; 
     fclose($Handle); 
   ?>

Above is simple example to do it in php

edited Mar 04 '14 at 07:28

answered Mar 04 '14 at 07:20

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 29 '13 at 03:39

I haven't written a lot of php, but if you replace "w" with "w+" in fopen() it'll open the file and place the pointer at the end of it if the file already exists, making any fwrite() calls append to the file.

$file_handle = fopen("testFile.txt", "w+");

http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

edit: saw sachleen's answer and yes, you could combine the date (down to the day) with the file name. So that on a new day a new file would be created for that day and if the file exists for that day, it will be appended to.

score -2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '13 at 04:39

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Thanks. I resolved this problem with this http://www.redips.net/php/write-to-log-file/

answered Jan 29 '13 at 04:39

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why you want to write this big class to print simple thing in text file? – Hitesh Mar 04 '14 at 07:22

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