PHP: Write form data to text file in addition to email? - php

Question

I am using the following code to email the results of a form submission. Since I'm running without a database I'd like some sort of other record.
<?php
$to = "me#me.com";
$from = $_REQUEST['email'];
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$headers = "From: $from";
$subject = "New Message";
$fields = array();
$fields{"first_name"} = "first_name";
$fields{"last_name"} = "last_name";
$fields{"email"} = "email";
$fields{"phone"} = "phone";
$fields{"hospital"} = "hospital";
$fields{"title"} = "title";
$body = "Here is what was sent:\n\n";
foreach($fields as $a => $b){
$body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]);
}
$send = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?>
How do I save the results to a text file in addition to email? I've seen examples on how to do text but not in addition to email.

Answer 1

you should check the file functions :
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
An example of what you could do :
$filePath = 'records.txt';
file_put_contents($filePath, "\nYour text here...", FILE_APPEND);

Answer 2

Should be something like this:
//Email code here...
if(!$file = fopen('records.txt', 'a+')) {
echo 'Could not write to file.';
exit;
}
$content = "Email sent on: " . time() . PHP_EOL . "***" . PHP_EOL . $body . PHP_EOL . "***" . PHP_EOL;
if(fwrite($file, $content) === false) {
echo 'Could not write to file.';
exit;
}
fclose($file);
For more see examples at: http://php.net/fwrite