php/html form to echo text file contents

Hustle · 03-04-2009, 08:45 PM

Hi, I have a text file which i would like to echo the contents into seperate fields on a php/html form, the contents i would like to echo into text boxes is what is not in capital letters

NAME name-here
ADDRESSLINE1 address-line1
ADDRESSLINE2 address-line2
ADDRESSLINE3 address-line3
PHONEHOME homephoneline

I don't know how to go about doing this, I want to be able to edit the text file, if it is at all possible, thank you

hello-world · 03-04-2009, 11:24 PM

Here is a file written by wildhoney.

http://www.talkphp.com/attachments/a...ment-quote.php

and if you want to write a something.

Quote:

<?php
if(isset($_GET['con'])){
$contents = "write.txt";
file_put_contents($contents,$_GET['con']);
}
echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."'><input type=text name=con><input type=submit></form>";

?>

I hope it is helpful.

Edited: By the way I am not php Expert.So wait what others say.

tony · 03-10-2009, 07:14 AM

Hi, just making sure I understand what you are asking.
The form is not submitted yet, right? It is first displayed and you want to load the information from the text file in the form's textboxes.

If that is the case
you would need to get the contents of the file line by line, then display the line content in the textbox.
I guess something like this:

PHP Code:


			
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<?php
$fields=file('input_file.txt');
foreach ($fields as $field) {
    $input=explode(" ", $field);
    echo "\t<label for=\"$input[0]\">$input[0]:</label>"
    echo " <input type=\"text\" name=\"$input[0]\" value=\"$input[1]\" /> <br />";
}
?>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

This is of course assuming the input is separated by a space and there is no spaces in the input values.

i don't know if that helped out.