Re: html form that will post to a .txt file

[Staggers]

This is a script I put together a while back. It puts stuff into the format ->

Title, Comment, Author, Date

extract($_POST,EXTR_SKIP);

//list($name,$com,$author,$date)

function CleanStr($str){

$str = trim($str); //Remove leading and trailing whitespace

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { //magic quotes is deleted (?)

$str = stripslashes($str);

}



$str = htmlspecialchars($str);//remove html special chars

$str = str_replace("&", "&", $str);//remove ampersands



return str_replace(",", ",", $str);//remove commas and change to special chars # THIS IS VITAL!

}



if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] != "POST") error("Error: No POST.",$dest);



// Check the contents of the form

if(!$name||ereg("^[ |@|]*$",$name)) $name=""; 	// If field is empty or that unknown Jap character found...

if(!$com||ereg("^[ |@|t]*$",$com)) $com="";		// and or a tab character...

if(!$sub||ereg("^[ |@|]*$",$author))   $author=""; 	// make field empty.

if(!$com) die("Please write something.");



$name  = CleanStr($name);

$com  = CleanStr($com);

$author  = CleanStr($author);



$com = str_replace( "rn",  "n", $com);

$com = str_replace( "r",  "n", $com);

// Continuous lines

$com = ereg_replace("n((!@| )*n){3,}","n",$com);

$com = nl2br($com);		//br is substituted before newline char



$com = str_replace("n",  "", $com);	//delete  n from a string.





if($pass == "thisisthepassword") { // See that the password is correct



$filename = 'logfile.txt';



//set what will be written

$content_r = $name.",".$com.",".$author.",".date('l jS of F Y h:i:s A')."n"; //this will write in the values on a new line separated by commas



//write

$file = fopen($filename,"a") or die ("Error opening file in write mode!");

fputs($file,$content_r);

fclose($file) or die ("Error closing file!");



} //closing of If statement for the password.

And this is the html form to go with it:
(excuse the table, but it makes it all neat and tidy)

	
Author:

	
Password:

	
Title:

	
Comment:
 
	
	
Everything Good?
  
	

I hope this helps and makes a bit more sense, it works differently to the above scripts but variety in learning and techniques is always good.