Using fetch to read and write files

In my code i’ve a file called “orca.txt” it is just a number writen in this. it looks like:

2300

I use fetch to read this number, i get it with:

fetch(‘orca.txt’)

.then(response => response.text())

.then(textString => { contador=textString; });

It works very well, but then after i need to increase the value from the var contador, so I use contador++; after i wanna to save this new value into the file “orca.txt”

i’ve tried this:

contador++;

var ct=contador.toString();

fetch(“orca.txt”,{method:’POST’, body:ct})

.then (response => response.text());

but when i refresh the page or open in server the file orca.txt the value is same.

Can anyone help me how to write a value into a file (server file, no user file) using POST method?

Answer

Using PHP and file_put_contents and JS’s Fetch API with FormData API

Create an index.html file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>DEMO</title>
</head>
<body>
    <button id="increment" type="button">INCREMENT</button>
    <input id="counter" type="text" readonly>

    <script>
        const EL_increment = document.querySelector("#increment");
        const EL_counter = document.querySelector("#counter");
        let counter = 0;

        const incrementCounter = () => {
            counter = parseInt(counter) + 1;
            const FD = new FormData();
            FD.append("counter", counter);
            fetch("saveCounter.php", {
                method: 'post',
                body: FD
            }).then(data => data.json()).then((res) => {
                EL_counter.value = res.counter;
            });
        };

        const init = async () => {
            EL_increment.addEventListener("click", incrementCounter);
            counter = await fetch('counter.txt').then(response => response.text());
            EL_counter.value = counter;
        };

        init();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

create counter.txt file:

Create a saveCounter.php file:

<?php

$response = ["status" => "error"];

if (isset($_POST["counter"]) && file_put_contents("counter.txt", $_POST["counter"])) {
    $response = ["status" => "success", "counter" => $_POST["counter"]];
}

echo json_encode($response);

exit;

Spin up your localhost server or for a quick test using cli-server run from terminal:

php -S localhost:8081

and head to http://localhost:8081 to try it out

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