Use PHP to create a DOC file on a Unix Box based on an HTML webform selection

Question

Hello,

I have an HTML file which contains a webform with multiple questions which have a YES / NO responses.

If the question has a YES answer, I would like a predefined ( per question ) section of text to be written to a DOC file on the server, but only AFTER the submit button has been pressed ( this way, if the user changes their mind and changes an answer form YES to NO, I won't have to re-write the doc ).

When the user has clicked Submit, The file should be presented as a download.

Any Ideas

Answer 1

you only have to link your html form to some script (php, jsp, ...) like this

<form action="/myscript.php" method="post">
   YOUR FORM
   <input type="submit" value="Send Form">
</form>

Then script does the whole work...here are some examples for php:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124959/create-word-document-using-php-in-linux
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188452/reading-writing-a-ms-word-file-in-php