In this example you will learn about creating a File in the directory.
In this example you will learn about creating a File in the directory.Creating a file using HTML form action
In this example, you will learn to make a query form asking to to create a file in PHP. You will have to write the codes for HTML and PHP.
First create a HTML form, then call the action form of PHP code in the form.
for creating a file in PHP, first declare a file name, define the path of destination where the file has to created.
Print the file name and end the php cide.
Example:
<?php
if($_POST["create"]){
$name=$_POST["destination"];
$filename=fopen($name,"x") or exit("File Not Created.");
print "created";
}?>
Creating an action form in HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Create File</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body >
<form name="form" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<table style="border:1px solid #CCCCCC; background-color:#F0F0F0; font-family:verdana; font-size:12px" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" width="600px">
<tr>
<td><strong>Location</strong></td>
<td><input type="text" id="destination" name="destination"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td><td><input type="submit" name="create" value="Create"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>