create html file from form output parsed by php script

Question

I want to make an html document update with input from a form

The goal is to be able to enter the URL, enter the description, enter the date created and output to a file.

My thoughts are to break the HTML document into pieces, begin.txt newarticle.txt and end.txt

Then piece it back together using fopen and fwrite.

I'm sure there's an easier way, but this is how I'm currently trying to do it.

<html>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF>
<H1>Add new Article</h1>

<form action="newarticle.php" method="post">
Paste the link address
<input type="text" name="url">
</br>
Paste the description:
<input type="text" name="description">
</br>
Paste the date article was released:
<input type="text" name="date">
<p>

<input type=submit value="Create Article">
</form>
</body>
</html>

newarticle.php

<?php
$v1 = $_POST["url"]; //You have to get the form data
$v2 = $_POST["description"];
$v3 = $_POST["date"];
$file = fopen('newarticle.txt', 'w+'); //Open your .txt file
ftruncate($file, 0); //Clear the file to 0bit
$content = $v1. PHP_EOL .$v2. PHP_EOL .$v3;
fwrite($file , $content); //Now lets write it in there
fclose($file ); //Finally close our .txt
die(header("Location: ".$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]));
?>

This gives me the output on three separate lines.

How do I have it create a file with content formatted it into an actual piece of code :

<li><a href=$v1>$v2</a></li>
<li>$v3</li>

@khansen V1 is a url, V2 is description text string, V3 is a date in the format of January 1st 2019 — John MacKenzie
– John MacKenzie, Commented Feb 1, 2019 at 3:25
Sorry if I'm missing the obvious , but when I try something like : $content = <li><a href=$v1. PHP_EOL .$v2. PHP_EOL .$v3; It doesn't seem to like it — John MacKenzie
– John MacKenzie, Commented Feb 1, 2019 at 3:35
@Harvtronix answer explains exactly what you have to do. Edit: There is missing a . in front of $v1 — KHansen
– KHansen, Commented Feb 1, 2019 at 3:37

KHansen · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-01 03:30:33Z

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If you don't mind the format of the html always being exactly the same with the same set of elements, but different attribute values and inner HTML, you can use a heredoc to build up the html. Basically a multi-line string. For example:

$v1 = "info from the form";
$v2 = "more info!";

$built = <<<EOF
<li>$v1</li>\n
<li>$v2</li>
EOF;

echo $built;

this will output:

<li>info from the form</li>
<li>more info!</li>

edited Feb 1, 2019 at 3:30

KHansen

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answered Feb 1, 2019 at 3:27

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Harvtronix Over a year ago

@KHansen Thanks for keeping me honest! I originally called that var $info, but then switched to the var names used by the OP and only got 2/3rds of the way there.

John MacKenzie Over a year ago

could you possibly look at stackoverflow.com/questions/54473156/…

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