Tricky question - PHP form help

[dragonz]

I'm trying to set this up so that it does 2 things when someone hits submit.

I want the normal function to happen (whatever upload.php does)

But I also want to add some extra input boxes that will send the entered text to a .txt file at the same time.

For example.. I want to add an input box for someone to enter their e-mail address, and one to enter their nickname as well. But while the input boxes that are already there do what they are supposed to do, I want the e-mail input data and the nickname to be sent to the .txt file.

I don't know if I need to make a separate form for that, or if I can add it all into the same form.. Can anyone help me out with this?

This is the code for the form that I have now, without the new input boxes that I want to add.

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="post">
Upload a file<br />
<input type="file" name="tfile" /><br />
Associate a password<br />
<input type="password" name="password" /><br />
Referer's name here.<br />
<input type="text" name="referer" size="50" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>

[eagle1]

CAn't you do that from the same functions in upload.php?
I think you can!
For example, to get the information from the textboxes you can just use the $_POST="name of the form bla bla blah" (if you are using post ).
And then you can apply something like this:

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php

[shampoo]

Edit: ahhh scratch that

[krohnjw]

Yeah, just put them into the form and edit upload.php.

You can access the values using $_POST[varname] and do whatever you want with them, that includes writing to a file.

If you are going to do this a lot though might i suggest setting up a database?

[Carl-cox-]

yeh basically what krognjw is saying for example

$filename = 'test.txt';
$linetoadd = $HTTP_POST_VARS['username']."*|*".md5($HTTP_POST_VARS['password'])."*|*".$date()."\n";
$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');
fwrite($handle, $linetoadd);
fclose($handle);

should do the trick

also user $HTTP_POST_VAR instead of $_POST

becasue older versions of php can't handle the $_POST

[eagle1]

WOW!!
I'm surprised that I wasn't that far off!!!!

(I don't know much PHP at all!! :P ).

[Rand Dusing]

Hotscripts.com has some good PHP scripts that you maybe able to to use or help you make your own.

[dragonz]

Thanks everyone.