I'm trying to make the user input form data and when hitting submit it places the form data in a existing text file and replaces the specific string with that form data.
<?php
$myFile = "freewill.doc";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$fName = $_POST["fName"];
fwrite($fh, $fName);
$mInitial = $_POST["mInitial"];
fwrite($fh, $mInitial);
$lName = $_POST["lName"];
fwrite($fh, $lName);
$placeholders = array('fin', 'min', 'lana');
$namevals = array($fName,$mInitial,$lName);
echo "<br/>namevals 0:".$namevals[0];
$path_to_file = 'freewill.doc';
$file_contents = file_get_contents($path_to_file);
$file_contents = str_replace($placeholders,$namevals,$file_contents);
//build the string by putting each piece of text and variable exactly where
you want it:
$string = "I, ".$fName." ".$mInitial." ".$lName.", a resident of Neverland
County, Virginia, revoke any prior wills and amendments to wills made by me
and declare this Will to be my Last Will and Testament.";
file_put_contents($path_to_file,$string);
fclose($fh);
?>
This is something that I have already but all it does it build the string from the code and not actually inserting it into the file but rewriting the whole line. I need to go to another page when the user hits submit so the data needs to pass over and not replace what is already done but keep adding to it.
<h2>Please enter your name.</h2>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo
htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
First Name: <input type="text" name="fName">
<br><br>
Middle Initial: <input type="text" name="mInitial">
<br><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lName">
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Next">
<button type="button" onclick="location.href='download.php'">Download
will</button>
</form>
Here is my form data
Change the code as following:
$file_contents = str_replace($placeholders,$namevals,$file_contents);
// removed $string
file_put_contents($path_to_file,$file_contents);
fclose($fh);
The issue was you were writing $string to file instead of writing the $file_contents which was extracted from the file.