Saving contact form information when submit is pressed?

I would like to use java to save what the user inputs into a contac us form to a text file as opposed to having the data mailed via na email address.

I would prefer to use javascript to do this? Does anyone have any ideas on it ? I am quite new to java so i hope it is simple.

I cannt find anything on the web.

any help would be awesome.

I'm not sure that would be the best idea.

JavaScript is vulnerable to attack, You'd be better of use a server side language such as PHP or ASP. They are quite easy to learn.

Although, if you would really like to use JS. Have a look at this: http://4umi.com/web/javascript/filewrite.htm

Or just google, JavaScript - Writing files.

I'm not quite sure what you want to do.

Do you want to save contact data on the server? That can't be done with JavaScript. You need a server side language for this. You could use PHP to save a file on the server instead of emailing the data to you.

Also note: JavaScript is not Java. They are two completely different languages used for different purposes.

No no

all i need to know is what code i can put behind a submit button to save the form data the user enters to a text file as opposed to using a mailto

I have something written here but it seems very long winded.

There is no simple code that you can use to save a file. It is usually done on the server using PHP or similar.

But you can view a JavaScript code here: http://4umi.com/web/javascript/filewrite.htm#thescript

The problem is it only works in Internet Explorer.

Ok, I get it. You want to save the details in a textfile instead of having them mailed to some emailed address.

Instead of adding it to a MySQL database, you want to add it to a textfile so that the file is human readble. Correct? Is this what you want?

As blake121 says there is no way to do this with cross-compatible javascript. ActiveX (bad choice of programming) has some functions for manipulating local files but the security of end users has prevented this being anything other than closet code for niche purposes.

What you really want to look into is ajax -- which is javascript communicating with a server-side language such as PHP.

You can use PHP to write the text file and store on the server ( or serve as download to user as required)

I think he want both of them (email and text file)

This is the PHP script you would need to do it. Remember, this is PHP not javascript.
Just create a HTML form and point it towards this script. The rest would be taken care by the PHP script

PHP: Select all

<?php
$string1=$_POST['string1'];
$string1=$_POST['string2'];
$string1=$_POST['string3'];
$string1=$_POST['string4'];
$content ="$string1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$string2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$string3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$string4";
$fp = fopen("YourTextFile.txt", "a+");
fwrite($fp, $content)
?>

Replace YourTextFile with file name of your choice.
The     are used to produce tab spaces so that you can read conveniently.

Again this is a job for server side languages. This is because end users can manipulate javascript as it is ran in there browsers plus the fact javascript cant do this by definition becuase its a client side scripting language so your snookered anyway.