create .txt with text in the field?

Tim Dobson · 02-27-2010, 02:30 PM

Is it possible that if i have a form field and press create tag that i can create a text file in a specific folder.. where the text file would have a random name with random letters and numbers and the text file to contain what was specified in the text field... if so has anyone got any scripts or no of any scripts to do this? Thanks

Village Idiot · 02-27-2010, 04:01 PM

I don't have an existing script to do this, it is a fairly specific script so I doubt anyone else will have an exact match. However, this is quite easy to build. Here are the components you will need to get this together:

POST data
Random string generator
Create file
Write to file

Tim Dobson · 02-27-2010, 08:34 PM

great stuff if anyone needs anything like this here is what i come out with and if anyone spots any errors i would appriciate u letting me know :D Thanks

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$thetag = $_REQUEST["tag"];

//make a random number for the file name

$randnumb = rand(0, 9999999);

//make the file on the server and save it as .txt

$ourFileName = $randnumb . ".txt";

$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");

fclose($ourFileHandle);

//open the file

$myFile = $randnumb . ".txt";

$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');

//start writing to the file

$stringData = $thetag . "\n";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);

//we created the file and input the data to it now give them the URL

$thenewurl = 'file location' . $randnumb . '.txt';

echo 'Your upload was successful.. this is your URL <a href="file location' . $randnumb . '.txt">' . $thenewurl . '</a><BR>Save the url and give it to who you want to!';

?>

Village Idiot · 02-27-2010, 10:13 PM

If two numbers are generated the same you will write on to an existing file. You will want to check to make sure the file does not exist before continuing (do-while loops are useful for this).

Tim Dobson · 02-27-2010, 10:41 PM

ah yes and i hit a bit of a snag also... how would i go about makeing the .txt file UTF-8? any ideas?

Tim Dobson · 02-27-2010, 11:51 PM

ok well i found a few things on the net but got a bit stook lol i need a bit of help...

i got this and put it in to my script

PHP Code:


			
// Fixes the encoding to uf8
function fixEncoding($thetag)
{
  $cur_encoding = mb_detect_encoding($thetag) ;
  if($cur_encoding == "UTF-8" && mb_check_encoding($thetag,"UTF-8"))
    return $thetag;
  else
    return utf8_encode($thetag);
} // fixEncoding

testing all this out i found that for some people the letters in the text file come out all messy and for some it come out perfectly fine... what could be causing this?? help appriciated!

Tim Dobson · 02-28-2010, 04:00 AM

well i got it figured out... it was due to people viewing it on there browser not having it set to the correct character encoding so this is problem solved! thanks for the help village :)