Text file from html form

Active Oldest Votes. Something like this? When you click the Download button, the contents of this box will be downloaded to your machine at the location you specify. Pretty nifty. Improve this answer. DevonTaig DevonTaig 6 6 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. This worked perfectly well for me and saved me a lot of time. Thanks for posting. WriteLine document. Great answer. Out of curiosity, is this cross-browser compatible?

TaylorFlores I believe so, mostly because this works with older versions of JavaScript as well. I think it should generally work. The second example will only work in extremely limited cases, namely Internet Explorer with high permissions granted if that even still works; I know it worked back in the IE days.

If such code could run untrusted, it would be a huge security hole. To my knowledge, these are the only ways to do it with JScript — imulsion. Kindly save the file as php and run on your server. If you are using localhost then start the server and run. As you are working in PHP then you must need to use a server.

You can use xampp for this if you wish. Hi, thanks for the explanation. Why does it work perfectly in the localhost, like xampp I mean, the data is stored in the text file , but in the remote server the data is not stored in the text file? Thank you again. Thank you so much. My book had be tearing my hair out, but this was sooo simple and easy to understand. Thank you thank you!!!! I used exact same code you provided and its working fine. But when i want to use it in my form where there are 5 textboxes, its not working.

Can you please show me how to use it with 5 textboxes, First name, last name, phone number, email and comments- and a submit button.

I am not very good at php. Could you please tell me how to save the strings in different lines? Thanks it worked. Can anyone suggest a few improvements to this code? Success Message upon submitting form 2.

Info saved in data. Does this work with apache? I attempted it on ubuntu. Everything else worked but the text file stays blank. Your email address will not be published. Please enable JavaScript to submit this form. Fanon says:. July 14, at pm. Saruque Ahamed Mollick says:. September 22, at pm. Roy says:. I did this because: As is often the case with web programming, someone else had already done most of the work. Anyone who has a web browser can make use of the script , and it can be modified for other use cases.

A web form is a familiar user interface with built-in advantages provided by the browser like pressing the Tab key to go to the next field and remembering previous input with autocomplete for repetitive entries.