Currently I'm working with forms, trying to send a form submission to a text file. However, when I set the form action to my PHP script: action="saveScript.php, it redirects me to the PHP script's page in html.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" lang="en">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/form.css">
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="saveScript.php" id="twitterCardTest">
<ul>
<label for="fName">First Name: </label>
<li><input type="text" id="fName" name="fName" size="5" maxlength="15"></li>
<label for="lName">Last Name: </label>
<li><input type="text" id="lName" name="lName" size="5" maxlength="15"></li>
<label for="message">Message: </label>
<li><input type="text" class="message" id="message" name="message" size="5" maxlength="140"></li>
</ul>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Info" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
PHP
<?php
$file= fopen('test.txt', "a");
//retrieve existing file
$retrieve = file_get_contents($file);
$current = $_POST['fName'] . ' ' . $_POST['lName'] . "\n" . $_POST['message'] . "\n";
//record information inputted by user
$write = fwrite($file, $current);
$fileSize = filesize('test.txt');
$saveFile = file_put_contents( '/htdocs/', $current, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
if($file === FALSE) {
die('Error writing file');
}
else if ($file != FALSE) {
echo "Information written to file";
}
else {
die('no post data to process');
}
fclose($file);
?>
Alternatively, I tried placing the PHP code into the html file after the body end tag. This resulted in the browser auto commenting the whole script out. I recently updated php using brew and I've configured my local web server to accommodate PHP. My question is how would I go about fixing this issue so my script is being read as php? In addition, why does this issue occur?
