Create a new page on hitting submit.

[kedar9]

Hi all,
What I am trying to do is
On "Page 1", user fills a form, and when he clicks on "Submit",
a new page, say "Page 2" should get automatically created (in the same folder as index.php) in such a way that name of the page is say first_name.php (what the user filled on page 1) and it should display the contents of what he filled in on the first page.
Something like showed in the figure.
http://i54.tinypic.com/j768wj.jpg
Please help guys!
Thanks and Regards.

[Lioshenka]

Well, on the first page you will ned to have some code like this:

<form method="post" action="../yoursecondpage.php">
                Username:<input type="text" name="username" size="15"/>
                  <input type="submit" name="login" value="Log In" />
</form>

This basically allows the user to type their name in ans post it to the second page.

Now, the second page will need to have some code like this:

$fh = fopen($_POST['username'], 'w');
fwrite($fh, stripslashes($_POST['username']));
fclose($fh);

populate it with the text.

I think that's pretty much it.

PS Mind you, all the second page does is creates a new file and puts user's text into it. You can add an echo statement to display the text (or include, or redirect) - but the code above doesn't actually show anything to the user at the moment.

[lyrico]

It depends on some browser. But you can try this.

<form action='page2.php' method='post' target='_blank'>

All version of IE supports the target='_blank' tags.

[pixelsoul]

Why would you want to create a new file in the folder just for that? You could potentially be inundated with a huge amount of files in the folder if many people or bots filled and submitted the form. I am not sure what you are attempting to do but I bet there is a better way to achieve your goal.

[vinayakgarg]

You should not create a page for each person, in my opinion.
You can use a custom page to simply echo the contents of the form. If its a profile page you are creating, you can store user details in a database.

Vinayak

[kedar9]

Thanks for your help guys. But as pixelsoul and Vinayak said, I need to create a new file and the filename needs to be user-desired. Like I mentioned in the figure, http://i54.tinypic.com/j768wj.jpg once the user John hits Submit, a new page john.php gets created.
So basically, I need a form-action based code to create a new php page.
Thanks again..

[Lioshenka]

That's what my script does, doesn't it? It creates a file, naming it exactly as what user has typed in and also populates it with the same data.

[kedar9]

@Lioshenka,
Thanks for the help buddy. /but what your code does is creates a file. I want something to create a permalink. Like in the figure, the page john.php should be for permanent.
If your code does that, then I'm sorry, maybe I'm not following your steps properly.

[Lioshenka]

Yes, that's what my code does. You have two pages - one is with the form, and another one is just a script which creates john.php. So this is basically what happens:

- John fills in the form on firstpage.php and clicks Submit
- firstpage.php sends John's name (what he typed) to the secondpage.php
- secondpage.php creates file called john.php and saves it in the same folder as firstpage.php and secondpage.php

If Mary then visits the page, same thing happens and a 4th file called mary.php is created in the same directory. Hope this helps :)

PS you said you want the secondpage.php to display John's name too - this can be achieved by adding a simple

echo "$_POST['login'];

line in the secondpage.php

Let me know if you are still having troubles - I can try and actually write both php files for you if I can :)

[kedar9]

@Lioshenka
Oh, sorry. I did not go that way. I will try it.
Thanks a lot for your help. :)