posting

[Thunderace]

When posting in you get a textarea that is then "posted" and in the case of SMF posts to a DB.

In my case I'm using a textarea that will then simply write to a text file.

What is the <form> I should use if I want a <form> above the textarea

and a "submit" button under the textarea and write to the variable $somecontent?

[Trekkie101]

You mean like this

post.php

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<?php
echo'<form action="process.php" method="post">
<input name="message" type="text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>'
?>

The word message forms my variable $message

process.php

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<?php

$filename = 'test.txt';
$somecontent = $message;

$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');

fwrite($handle, $somecontent);

fclose($handle);

echo "Message Successfully Posted";

?>

Like that?
That was what I made last night, playing around with php, then I read it by

view.php

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<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$fp = fopen($filename, "r");
$YEAH = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
fclose($fp);
echo $YEAH;
?>

But I needed the file test.txt premade.

Sorry if im babling on.

[Thunderace]

No no it's helping m8.

How do I pass the form variable to a new file action="../newfile.php"

?

[Trekkie101]

Do you mean like,

Post -> Proccess -> Process2
I dont know, Ive just took it Post -> process using the method="post" thing and then took the variable in process.php and wrote it to the file using process.php as it had already defined the variable.

[Thunderace]

<form action="../myfile.php" method="post">
<input name="contents" type="text" />
      <textarea id='maintext'>
Place your page contents and keywords here.
</textarea>
<script>replaceTextarea(
            'maintext'                  //textarea id
            , '100%'                   //width
            , '200px'                   //height
            ,'/rich-textarea-53'        //html directory
            ,'/rich-textarea-53.css'                //style sheet file
            )</script>
            <input type="submit"/>
            </form>

$contents is not passing to "myfile.php"  as a variable it's empty

[Trekkie101]

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<form action="../process.php" method="post">
<input name="contents" type="text" />
      <textarea id='maintext'>
Place your page contents and keywords here.
</textarea>
<script>replaceTextarea(
            'maintext'                  //textarea id
            , '100%'                   //width
            , '200px'                   //height
            ,'/rich-textarea-53'        //html directory
            ,'/rich-textarea-53.css'                //style sheet file
            )</script>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>

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<?php
$filename = 'myfile.php';
$somecontent = $contents;

$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');

fwrite($handle, $somecontent);

fclose($handle);

echo "Message Successfully Posted";

?>

myfile.php

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That uses the form on the first bit, then passes it to process which then writes the data to myfile.php

Is that it?

[Thunderace]

myfile.php is == to your process.php

[Trekkie101]

Ah right, sorry about that.

method="post">

That should create the variable you specify <input name="contents"

and when called as $contents it should work.


Sorry im kinda new to php.

[Thunderace]

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<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/rich-textarea-53/rich-textarea-53.js"></script>
<form action="testwrite.php" method="post">
<input name="contents" />
      <textarea id='contents'>
Place your page contents and keywords here.
</textarea>
           <input type="submit"/>
            </form>
<script>replaceTextarea(
            'contents'                  //textarea id
            , '100%'                   //width
            , '200px'                   //height
            ,'/devzone/rich-textarea-53'        //html directory
            ,'/devzone/rich-textarea-53.css'                //style sheet file
            )</script>

This is not passing the variable $contents to testwrite.php

[[Unknown]]

Try $_POST['contents'].

-[Unknown]

[Thunderace]

Sorry to be thick, but where?

It is like ..

<form (plus whatever)>
<textarea id='contents'>
This is what I want to become the variable (text/html only)
</textarea>
<input (plus whatever)>
</form>

[[Unknown]]

I meant when accessing it.  I would guess this is register_globals being off.

-[Unknown]

[Thunderace]

Yup register globals is off

Please advise how to pass variables from a form?

[[Unknown]]

Instead of this:

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<?php
$filename = 'myfile.php';
$somecontent = $contents;

$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');

fwrite($handle, $somecontent);

fclose($handle);

echo "Message Successfully Posted";

?>

Use:

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<?php
$filename = 'myfile.php';
$somecontent = $_POST['contents'];

$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');

fwrite($handle, $somecontent);

fclose($handle);

echo "Message Successfully Posted";

?>

-[Unknown]

[Thunderace]

Thanks [unknown]

This works ..

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<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/devzone/rich-textarea-53/rich-textarea-53.js"></script>
<form action ="../devzone/testwrite.php" method = "post">
<b>Enter text</b>
<input type ="text" name = "contents">
<p />
<input type = "submit" value = "SEND!">

However it only passes one line. How do i get it to pass text/html with virtually no limit?

[Thunderace]

Got it working atm

Thanks for the input

[Thunderace]

New problem 

Posting text/html is fine, however when posting a URL link it adds "\" as follows: -

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<a href=\"http://www.mysite.com/index.php\">home</a>

[Thunderace]

Never mind

$myvar = stripslashes($myvar);

Seems to work

[Thunderace]

Ok I've now got mulltiple html <textarea>'s within a <form>

each with it's own id=

I want to send all the <textarea>'s as one "submit"

and read them in the next script as $_POST["myvariable"];

Help appreciated please 

[[Unknown]]

You can't do that.  But, if you name them all "something[]" then you can do:

$myvar = implode('', $_POST['something']);

-[Unknown]