Apache2 web application- Submit button - write data into a file

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Hello,

I am newbie on php-mysql and just know only installation.
I have an apache2+php5+mysql installed VPS.
What I would like to do is that when visitor enters requested data shown in index.html, submit button will run a script to save each field into a file.

Here is an example shown in /var/www/html/index.html :

name: 
surname:
email:
phone:

Button name is "submit"
Filename that data will be inserted is "entry"
its path : /var/data/entry

Normally I can do such a thing with bash script but when it comes to html application, I do not have experience.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Boris

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Normally web developers use PHP for web applications because there are many "superglobal" variables in PHP which are not present in bash or other shell scripts.

See: PHP Superglobals to learn more about the rich array of super global variables available in PHP.

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