Can't save textarea to file using php?
Question
I have issue saving textarea to file. I used POST method to send the form to the other page then, in the next page I can't include the textarea content with the file Im not sure what is the problem.
Is there any idea about what is the problem?
Here are the two pages: page1:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Save</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="page2.php" method="post">
<span>name:</span>
<input type="text" name="name"><br>
<span>file extension: </span>
<select name="ext" id="ext">
<option value=".txt">.txt</option>
<option value=".doc">.doc</option>
</select>
<textarea name="txt1" id="txt1" cols="15" rows="10"></textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Save">
</form>
<br>
</body>
</html>
-page2.php
$txt1 = $_POST['txt1']; //textarea
$name = $_POST['name'];
$ext = $_POST['ext']; //choose from multiple extensions
if ($ext == '.txt') // In case if I want to add more than extension.
{
$file = "'. $name$ext.'" ;
$output = "$txt1";
file_put_contents($file, $output);
$text = file_get_contents($file);
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: application/text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}
5 answers
solution1
0
$file = "'. $name$ext.'";
should be:
$file = $name.$ext;
At least that's what I had to change to get it to work on my server.
solution2
0 2013-03-03 07:35:32
Without seeing your html I can't be sure of what the problem is. But its been my experience that when your having trouble accessing POST vars on the server side that it's probably a simple spelling error. Make sure the name attributes in your form line up with your POST vars. Just my two cents.
solution3
0 2013-03-03 07:35:51
I have no idea what did you mean with your code, so, I'd just rewrite it
To save a file on the server you need these 2 lines
$name = basename($_POST['name']).'.txt';
file_put_contents($name, $_POST['txt1']);
solution4
0 2014-03-26 00:54:20
You need to add an id to the form, then add the form Id to the textarea element. For example:
<form action="page2.php" method="post" id="myform">
<textarea name="txt1" id="txt1" cols="15" rows="10" form="myform"></textarea>
solution5
0 2014-09-13 20:11:33
Try using the wrap element in your textarea
<textarea name="txt1" id="txt1" cols="15" rows="10"></textarea>
add wrap
<textarea name="txt1" id="txt1" cols="15" rows="10" wrap="virtual"></textarea>
you can also use wrap: off, hard, soft and physical
In your database make sure the field txt1 is defined properly (ie type text).
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