How do I Post to .txt document before form submits - php

Question

What I am trying to do is before I submit a form to Mailchimp with someones email I want to write that email to a .txt file. Mailchimp is using a "get" for the form and the "action" is run on mailchimp not the same page as form. Here is my code for the form.
<form id="subscribe-form1" action="https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff"
method="get" class="form-inline">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email address" name="EMAIL">
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-grn" type="submit button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Sign Up</button>
</div>
</div>
<div style="visibility:collapse;" id="subscribe-result1"> </div>
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" id="mce-group[6917]-6917-0" name="group[6917][1024]" value="1024" checked="checked" style="">
I agree to recieve FREE newsletter from Personal Trainer Food </label>
</div>
<?php //this only works if I change get->post and action ="" but then it does not submit to mail chimp.
//Get the email from POST
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
$file = fopen("document.txt","a+");
fwrite($file,$email . "\n");
//redirect
?>
</form>

Answer 1

You can try appending the values manually to the URL, then redirecting to it:
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<form id="subscribe-form1" action="" method="get" class="form-inline">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email address" name="EMAIL">
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-grn" type="submit button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Sign Up</button>
</div>
</div>
<div style="visibility:collapse;" id="subscribe-result1"> </div>
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" id="mce-group[6917]-6917-0" name="group[6917][1024]" value="1024" checked="checked" style="">
I agree to recieve FREE newsletter from Personal Trainer Food </label>
</div>
<?php //this only works if I change get->post and action ="" but then it does not submit to mail chimp.
//Get the email from GET ◄■■■
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
$file = fopen("document.txt","a+");
fwrite($file,$email . "\n"); URL PARAMETERS START
fclose($file); // ◄■■■ ▼
header("Location: https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email"); // ◄■■■
exit; // ◄■■■
?>
</form>
Notice the original "chimp" URL contains an ampersand $amp; as HTML symbol. I think we can get rid of it and use the "natural" ampersand &.
There is a checkbox in your form, we can add it too:
fclose($file); // ◄■■■
if ( isset( $_GET["group[6917][1024]"] ) ) // IF CHECKBOX IS CHECKED...
$chk = "&group[6917][1024]=1024"; URL PARAMETERS START
else $chk = ""; ▼
header("Location: https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email$chk"); // ◄■■■
exit; // ◄■■■
The variables $email and $chk are at the end of the URL. An example of the resulting URL would be:
https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=josmanaba#yahoo.com&group[6917][1024]=1024
Edit :
Added an if to the PHP code:
<?php
if ( isset( $_GET["EMAIL"] ) ) {
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
if ( isset( $_GET["group"] ) )
$chk = "&group[6917][1024]=1024";
else $chk = "";
header("Location: https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email$chk");
exit;
}
?>
Edit #2 :
<?php
if ( isset( $_GET["EMAIL"] ) ) {
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
// SAVE EMAIL.
$file = fopen("document.txt","a");
fwrite($file,$email . "\n");
fclose($file);
if ( isset( $_GET["group"] ) )
$chk = "&group[6917][1024]=1024";
else $chk = "";
header("Location: https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email$chk");
exit;
}
?>
Edit #3
Redirect with a form and auto-submit it with javascript:
<?php
if ( isset( $_GET["EMAIL"] ) ) {
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
// SAVE EMAIL.
$file = fopen("document.txt","a");
fwrite($file,$email . "\n");
fclose($file);
if ( isset( $_GET["group"] ) )
$chk = "&group[6917][1024]=1024";
else $chk = "";
echo "<form method='get'" .
" id='frm'" .
" target='_blank'" .
" action='https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email$chk'>" .
"</form>" .
"<script type='text/javascript'>" .
"document.getElementById('frm').submit();" .
"</script>";
exit;
}
?>
Edit #4 :
This is edit #2 but saving the URL in the textfile :
<?php
if ( isset( $_GET["EMAIL"] ) ) {
$email = $_REQUEST['EMAIL'];
if ( isset( $_GET["group"] ) )
$chk = "&group[6917][1024]=1024";
else $chk = "";
$url = "https://personaltrainer.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post-json?u=4aeb5b710adef51ab754ll02f&id=76420114ff&EMAIL=$email$chk"
// SAVE EMAIL.
$file = fopen("document.txt","a");
fwrite($file,$email . "\n");
fwrite($file,$url . "\n");
fclose($file);
header("Location: $url");
exit;
}
?>