Upload forum results to file [closed] - php

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<form method="post">
Username: <input name="username" type="text" /><br />
Password: <input name="password" type="text" /><br />
Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
Subject: <input name="subject" type="text" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
When someone fills out the form above, is it possible for the results to be uploaded to a text file, such as results.txt, rather than being emailed?
So for example, if the site link was hithere.com, the results would be uploaded to a password-protected text file at hithere.com/results.txt.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is a posible code to be executed from your .php form handler file
<?php
$myfile = fopen("result.txt", "a") or die("Unable to open file!");
$text = $_POST['username']."\n";
$text .= $_POST['password']."\n";
$text .= $_POST['email']."\n";
$text .= $_POST['subject']."\n\n";
fwrite($myfile, $text);
fclose($myfile);
?>
Also, you may need to add an action attribute to your form tag, whose value should be the same as the .php filename(or route if it is not in the same folder). For example if your php file is form_handler.php you should have <form method='post' action='form_handler.php'>
A little bit explaining on the php code above, you open the file with the second parameter "a" to tell the server you don't want to override the file's content but just add some content after the existing one(append). If you wanted to override the contetn that parameter should be "w" Then you set all the text in a variable, and write it in the file with fwrite(). After this you need to close the file with fclose()
Edit: In case you don't know, "\n" are linebreaks.