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Jul 06.2005

What would be the best way to have user inputted data be writen to a text file which sits on a server? In order words, I have a form with one textbox and a submit button. When something is typed in the textbox and then submitted I want to have that written to a text file that will be on a server.

Two things to note, I want each entry seperated by its own line and I don’t want the previous entry being deleted by a new one. I want to be able to go back and see all inputted data in that textbox.

I’ve done quite a bit of searching around to find an answer to this without success. Any ideas? Tutorials or actual code would greatly help.

Thank you.

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@WebnerdJul 06.2005 — Use PHP:

<i>
</i>if(isset($_POST["submit"])){
$file="entries.txt";
$fp=fopen($file,"a+") or die("Cannot open $file.");
fwrite($fp,$_POST["yourfield"]);
fclose($fp);
}
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@ZeethauthorJul 06.2005 — Exactly the same as yours, but in a fewer lines, I have:

[code=php]$fp = fopen("textfile.txt", "a+");
fwrite($fp, $search);
fclose($fp);[/code]


Now, how would I get each entry in the search box to have its own line in the textfile? Its gets hard to read having entry after entry all on the same line.
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