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Please am trying to use dreameaver 8 to create a form which i want to submit its information to a file not a database, please does anyone as an idea how to go about this. Thanks

form_submit.php
<?php
//submission script
$data=serialize($_REQUEST); //or $_POST or $_GET
file_put_contents("myform.txt"; //finish
?>

To retrieve back
$data=unserialize(file_get_contents("myform.txt");
then you can do stuffs like echo $data['username']; //or you can use var_dump($data); to test it

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Seems like it would make more sense (and perhaps more secure as well) to dump the contents of the form into a database. By so doing, you also get to compartmentalize (is this the right word?) the form data (name, phone, etc). Not to mention, assuming you intend to get submitted forms from more than a few submissions, sure you can parse out the respective content but again, I think this is a messy approach.

Why, might I ask, do you want to put the stuff in a file? Perhaps that is the very reason why a database is not needed and I would definitely stand to be corrected.

^^^Mayhaps, he is trying to use a flat-file database. . . .

Come on man! Isn't a database in essence a flat file?

The advantage of the database, among others, is that things would be more modular, easier to search and depending on how you go about your code, more secure.

A flat footed database actually. I think we should probe the guy.

There are many kinds of databases, and you'd have to specify what kind of database you're talking about. I have experience with the MySQL Database, which is a fairly typical one, and very common. Most databases are like MySQL in that they operate in "transactions": steps that change or return information about the database, and which can be run one at a time. A few examples of transactions, as well as some information about databases:


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^^^So your point is?