Question

how can i customize the text name for the output on my fopen?
i tried using

$file = $Aname .'.txt';

but it won’t output correctly, and also after creating the text file return to the page
and prompt the user regarding the creation of the file .

<?php
$saving = $_REQUEST['saving'];
if ($saving == 1){ 
$Aname = $_POST['Aname'];

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$last = $_POST['last']; 
$mob = $_POST['mob']; 
$ext = $_POST['ext']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$add = $_POST['add']; 
$com = $_POST['com']; 
$day = $_POST['day']; 
$text = $_POST['text'];
$date = date("M j, Y "); 

$data = "Date Sent: {$date}\n\nName: {$name} {$last}\nPhone : {$mob} ext: {$ext}\nCompany: {$com}\nAddress : {$add}\nE-mail : {$email}\nDay : {$day}\n\nNote :

\n{$text}\n---------------------------------------\n";

$file = $Aname.'.txt';

$fp = fopen($file, "a") or die("Couldn't open $file for writing!");
fwrite($fp, $data) or die("Couldn't write values to file!"); 

fclose($fp); 
}
?>

and also instead of relocating the user to another page to give this error

die("Couldn't write values to file!"); 

just pop up an alert on the page.

Answer 1

Try using file_put_contents(). It replaces the whole fopen, fwrite, fclose headache.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php

<?php
$saving = $_REQUEST['saving'];
if ($saving == 1){ 
$Aname = $_POST['Aname'];

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$last = $_POST['last']; 
$mob = $_POST['mob']; 
$ext = $_POST['ext']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$add = $_POST['add']; 
$com = $_POST['com']; 
$day = $_POST['day']; 
$text = $_POST['text'];
$date = date("M j, Y "); 

$data = "Date Sent: {$date}\n\nName: {$name} {$last}\nPhone : {$mob} ext: {$ext}\nCompany: {$com}\nAddress : {$add}\nE-mail : {$email}\nDay : {$day}\n\nNote :

\n{$text}\n---------------------------------------\n";

$file = $Aname.'.txt';

file_put_contents ( $file, $data ); 
}
?>