Basic PHP script that records text based on link

Question

I am originally a java programmer but I need a very basic PHP script that will record the text given from the link to a .txt file(or an alternative) .

Such as

In java

String url = http://www.mywebsite.com/recorder.php?=

String stringToRecord = blablabla

String websitetovisit = url + stringToRecord

Then I'd just make the java application inquire that link and the script would add the string after ?= in a txt file.

But I have literally no experience in PHP.

How do I accomplish this? I have tried reading some PHP tutorials but I still don't have the slightest idea about this.

EDIT:

Let's say that there's the website www.mywebsite.com and there's a file in it, recorder.php

What recorder.php does is gets the string IN the link after the ?= and pastes it in a local .txt file.

So basically

www.mywebsite.com/recorder.php?=this_is_a_test

Would parse

this_is_a_test

into a local .txt file.

This is what I am trying to accomplish.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_filesystem_readfile.asp is this what you mean? — bas, Jul 27 '13 at 16:42
No, vice versa. I'm trying to get the text from the URL and parse it into a .txt file. — joe dacoolguy, Jul 27 '13 at 16:45
like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16292369/parse-web-page-content-using-php? — bas, Jul 27 '13 at 16:46
@bas&MrLore no. I will edit the original post to give you clearer instructions. — joe dacoolguy, Jul 27 '13 at 16:48

Erman Belegu · Answer 1 · 2013-07-27T16:50:57.500

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Try like this:

$url = "http://www.mywebsite.com/recorder.php?=";

$stringToRecord = "blablabla";

$websitetovisit = url ."". stringToRecord;
$text = file_get_contents($websitetovisit);
file_put_contents('test.txt', $text);

I EDIT CODE

edited Jul 27 '13 at 16:50

answered Jul 27 '13 at 16:42

Erman Belegu

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I'm not trying to convert java to PHP. I just tried to show what I would do in the java part of this whole idea. – joe dacoolguy Jul 27 '13 at 16:44
@joedacoolguy Sorry, I didn't understand you. Now I edit the code. Take a look. – Erman Belegu Jul 27 '13 at 16:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 27 '13 at 16:52

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file_put_contents('a.txt', file_get_contents($url));

This is how you should do that.

edited Jul 27 '13 at 16:52

Kristiono Setyadi

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answered Jul 27 '13 at 16:50

UnknownError1337

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '13 at 16:53

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Just copy the following code and paste it in you recorder.php

<?
/*$_GET returns all get parameter as an array.print_r will convert the 
 array to string and file_put_contents will save it to file*/
file_put_contents("text.txt",print_r($_GET,true));

answered Jul 27 '13 at 16:53

RadhaKrishna

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '13 at 17:05

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If you want to save the query part of the URL as-is (as it looks in the browser's address bar), then you could use:

file_put_contents('query.txt', parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_QUERY));

answered Jul 27 '13 at 17:05

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Basic PHP script that records text based on link

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