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Creating a file?
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:48 am
by jrschwartz
Would like to know the little bit of code needed to create a file in php.
I obviously need to have the permissions set in the folder.
But what is the code to create a file..
vars:
$TEXT = message text..
$FILENAME = filename.
etc.
Thanks!
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:56 am
by CoderGoblin
Before asking it would be polite if you had a basic look at the php manual. The code pasted below is a direct copy of a sample within the manual...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
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<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$somecontent = "Add this to the file\n";
// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($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;
}
echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)";
fclose($handle);
} else {
echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?>
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:58 am
by scorphus
RTM! You might want to start here:
Filesystem Functions. Then pay special attention to [php_man]fopen[/php_man]() and [php_man]fwrite[/php_man]() functions' reference.
-- Scorphus
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:03 am
by jrschwartz
create a file
it's very possible that I'm wrong but that code does not create a file..
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:08 am
by CoderGoblin
OK you are right, first code just writes to existing file... fopen requires the 'w' parameter and you can ignore the error checks.
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$handle = fopen($fname, "w");
fwrite($handle, "writing to tempfile");
fclose($handle);
unlink($fname);
?>
touch
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:27 am
by neophyte
You can create a file using
touch()[/url]