Check file

[paulman888888]

This is my code!

<?php

$ourFileName = "games/{$_POST['name']}.php"; // the name of the file to be made
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("Can't make file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);

$myFile = "games/{$_POST['name']}.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("There's an error!");
$stringData = "$_POST[main].php";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

?>

 

I would like something to check if the file name already exists.

Can someone please help.

 

Thankyou

 

[947740]

Does $_POST['name'] already have the extension in it?

 

$_POST[main] should be $_POST['main'].

 

Why do you a file, then close it, and then open the file, just with another variable name?

 

[micmania1]

try file_exists()

 

http://www.php.net/file_exists

[paulman888888]

Thankyou

 

[paulman888888]

whats the differnce between

$_POST['name']

and

$_POST[name].php?

 

do the ' doing anything?

[947740]

It makes name a string, which allows it to find the value of the variable.  Otherwise it does not know it is a string, and it will not return the correct value, if it returns a value at all.

[paulman888888]

is this right?

<?php
$filename = "games/{$_POST['name']}.php";

if (file_exists($filename)) {
    echo "Theres an error. That file already exists. Go back and change the name of the game.";
} else {
    $ourFileName = "games/{$_POST['name']}.php";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("Can't make file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);

$myFile = "games/{$_POST['name']}.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("There's an error!");
$stringData = "$_POST['main'].php";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
}
?>

 

thankyou

 

[947740]

It looks fine to me, but I only know a little about file functions.