This is an example of using fopen() to create a file, fwrite() to write to the file, and fclose() to close the file. Most common method for creating and writing to text files that involve complex data structures such as arrays. Can use the file() function to retrieve the data as an array for advanced data manipulation, such as sorting.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>PHP Working with Text Files Example 1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../php_styles.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<h3>Add a Bowler</h3>
<form action="script.php" method="get">
<label>First Name </label><input type="text" name="fname" /> <label>Last Name</label><input type="text" name="lname" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>PHP Working with Text Files Example 1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../php_styles.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (empty($_GET['lname']) || empty($_GET['fname'])) {
echo '<div align=center>Please enter your first and last name. Click <a href="javascript: history.go(-1)">here</a> to return to the form.</div>';
} else {
$lname = $_GET['lname'];
$fname = $_GET['fname'];
$file = "bowlers.txt";
$BowlersFile = fopen($file, "a");
$NewBowler = $lname . ", " . $fname . "\n";
fwrite($BowlersFile, $NewBowler);
fclose($BowlersFile);
echo '<div align=center><p>' . $NewBowler . ' has been added.</p>';
echo '<p>Click <a href="http://php.skillbuilderblocks.com/tutorials/unit05/ex01/form.php" target="unit05content">here</a> to return to the form.</div></p>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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