Turning form input into text in a file using php

Question

I have a HTML form with the following:

<form method="POST" action="/subscribe/subscribe.php">
<p><input type="text" name "Email" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(!this._haschanged){this.value=''};this._haschanged=true;"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit"></p>
</form>

I have the subscribe.php file with the following code:

# CONTENT
$email = $_POST['Email'];

# SAVE A COPY
$mailcopyfile = 'mailcopyfile.txt';
$fp = fopen($mailcopyfile, "a"); 
fputs($fp, $now . $email . ", ");
fclose($fp);

But in my mailcopyfile.txt all I get is commas for every new form submission like:

, , , , ,

What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the emails show?

And why doesn't the time show in the text file with the $now command? — Karl, Dec 18 '12 at 20:07
I thought I could just call it without defining it, first time writing php. But, it is not needed since this form should only hold emails. — Karl, Dec 18 '12 at 20:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '12 at 20:13

There is an error in your form/input line:

<p><input type="text" name "Email" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(!this._haschanged){this.value=''};this._haschanged=true;"></p>

after the name parameter is no equal sign. So i think this is the problem why there is no value in your text file.

<p><input type="text" name="Email" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(!this._haschanged){this.value=''};this._haschanged=true;"></p>

Turning form input into text in a file using php

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