Webforms in excel instead of e-mail - excel

Question

A client of mine asked me if i can find a solution for this problem.
His website (still a WIP) http://welkommagazine.nl/luuk/ has a form. The form obviously uses a sendmail script to send the form to e-mail. From thereon he manually copy/pastes all the submissions to excel.
What he wants is that the forms online automaticcaly are added to an excel document to save him a lot of work.
Now i am not a programmer, but a designer.. I think this can be done, but i have absolutely no clue how. I googled alot for it and the only thing i found was a dreamweaverplugin.
Is there a way to do this, if so, how?

Answer 1

Not a programmer's response, but...
I think an easy solution is to use Google docs. You can set-up a Google Spreadsheet and associate a form to it. Whenever a user fills the form , his data is added to the spreadsheet.
Your client may download that anytime.
There are some other providers on the market, some free, some not. E.g: wufoo.com

Answer 2

Found the answer myself. I wrote a PHP code snippet which actually stores the fields comma seperated in a CSV file and sends an email to a desired adress with the filled in fields.
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){
$pakket = $_POST['pakket'];
$extragidsen = $_POST['extragidsen'];
$naambedrijf = $_POST['naambedrijf'];
$err = '';
if(trim($pakket)==''){
$err .= '-Please enter a name';
}
if(empty($extragidsen)){
$err .= '-Please enter an email address';
}
if(strlen($naambedrijf)==0){
$err .= '-Please enter a comment';
}
if($err!=''){
echo $err;
}
else{
$filename = 'file.csv';
$somecontent = $pakket . ',' . $extragidsen . ',' . $naambedrijf . "\n";
// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {
// In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
// The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence
// that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}
// Write $somecontent to our opened file.
if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}
//--------------------------Set these paramaters--------------------------
// Subject of email sent to you.
$subject = 'Inschrijving welkom';
// Your email address. This is where the form information will be sent.
$emailadd = 'luuk#luukratief.com';
// Where to redirect after form is processed.
$url = 'http://www.google.com';
// Makes all fields required. If set to '1' no field can not be empty. If set to '0' any or all fields can be empty.
$req = '0';
// --------------------------Do not edit below this line--------------------------
$text = "Results from form:\n\n";
$space = ' ';
$line = '
';
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
{
if ($req == '1')
{
if ($value == '')
{echo "$key is empty";die;}
}
$j = strlen($key);
if ($j >= 20)
{echo "Name of form element $key cannot be longer than 20 characters";die;}
$j = 20 - $j;
for ($i = 1; $i ';
fclose($handle);
} else {
echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
}
}
Maybe the code aint that clean as it can be, but eh it works.
Feel free to clean up the code if you want to :)
I guessed I would answer this myself for the community...
BTW u need to set "write" rights to "file.csv"
cheers