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@NogDogFeb 02.2007 — #Try something like this to see if it helps narrow down the problem:
@NogDogFeb 03.2007 — #The problem is that in most PHP installations on web servers, the scripts are run under a separate user account rather than your personal user account. So you'll probably need to change the permission on the directory where you want to write the file to be read/write/execute for all (octal 777). If you can't find a way to change it via your FTP client, check your web hosting control panel, probably under file system utilities or something like that.
PHP script does not write values to file. Help anyone?
The contents of a simple mailform do not get written to a .txt file. They do get sent to a specified email address, though (you can check it out at [URL=”http://mailbox-it.com/dobbs/tests/writeToFile.html”]Mail Form
[B]Could someone point out the error preventing the PHP code to write values to the file? [COLOR=”DarkRed”]Eventually, my goal is to write the mailform contents back to an .html file [B]from this .txt file
Here is the code:
[code=php]
<?php
if (isset($_POST[‘submit’])) {
$sent = mail($_POST[‘to’],$_POST[‘subject’],$_POST[‘message’],”From: ” . $_POST[‘from’]);
if ($sent) {
echo “Mail sent”;
}
else{
echo “There was an error sending your mail”;
}
//open write and close file
$fp = fopen(“log.txt”, “a”);
fwrite($fp, $_POST[‘to’] . ” ” . $_POST[‘from’] . “n”);
fclose($fp);
}
?>
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[CODE]
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action=”writeToFile.php” method=”post”>
<table>
<tr>
<td>To:</td>
<td><input type=”text” name=”to” /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From:</td>
<td><input type=”text” name=”from” /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subject:</td>
<td><input type=”text” name=”subject” /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td><textarea name=”message” rows=”6″ cols=”50″></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”send” /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>[/CODE]
Please help! I do need it. Thank you.
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@NogDogFeb 02.2007 — #Try something like this to see if it helps narrow down the problem:[code=php]
//open write and close file
$fp = fopen("log.txt", "a");
if($fp !== FALSE)
{
fwrite($fp, $_POST['to'] . " " . $_POST['from'] . "n");
fclose($fp);
}
else
{
if(!is_writeable(getcwd())
{
echo "<p style='color: red'>ERROR: current directory is not writable by this script.</p>n";
}
else
{
echo "<p style='color: red'>ERROR: Unknown error attempting to open file for appending.</p>n";
}
}
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@NogDogFeb 03.2007 — #