php and forms

hi

can PHP be used to do CGI functions on say forms, I know it can use
databases like mysql.
for eg a simple form which asks for users name and comments , the details to
be stored on a simple text file

*** john townsley wrote/escribió (Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:07:04 +1000):
> can PHP be used to do CGI functions on say forms, I know it can use
> databases like mysql.
> for eg a simple form which asks for users name and comments , the details to
> be stored on a simple text file

Not sure of what you mean. You don't need to mix up CGI and PHP to write a
guestbook. You can write a CGI-only or a PHP-only solution.

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:07:04 +1000 (more or less), "john townsley"
<johntownsley@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>hi
>
>can PHP be used to do CGI functions on say forms, I know it can use
>databases like mysql.
>for eg a simple form which asks for users name and comments , the details to
>be stored on a simple text file
>

<?

/* records form response to file
form contains two fields, "name" and "comments".
*/

if (!(isset($_POST[submit]))):
{
$fname = "/path/to/file.txt";
$file = fopen($fname,"a+") or die("file open failed");
$data=array($_POST['name'],$_POST['comments']);
$content=makeCSV($data)
$content.="\n";
fwrite($file,$content) or die("fwrite failed");
fclose($file);
}
/*---
makeCSV

Given an array of string data, returns a single string with each element
quoted and
separated by commas

---*/

function makeCSV($data)
{
$sep = '","';
if(!is_array($data)) { return ''; }
$ret = '';
foreach($data as $record)
{
$ret = $ret.$sep.$record;
}
// strip off leading sep and add closing quote
$ret = substr($ret,2).'"';
return $ret;
}
?>