Adding text and writing to a new file

[trauch]

I have a .txt file on my server that contains about 30 lines of distinct numbers. This file is overwritten each day and I would like to create a script that adds all the numbers in the text file and writes the total to a new txt file each day. I'm sure this is pretty simple and would greatly appreciate someone sending me a sample script.

 

Below is an example of the contents of the text file. There is nothing but text in the file.

45

63

54

23

45

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[trq]

$total = 0;
foreach (file('textfile.txt') as $line) {
  $total += $line;
}
put_file_contents('total.txt', $total);

[trauch]

Thanks for your help. I have got the code to work but am not sure how to write to a new txt file. Here's what I've got so far.

 

<?php

$lines = file('textfile.txt/');

echo "sum($lines) = " . array_sum($lines) . "\n";

?>

 

I tried to use "put_file_contents" but either I messed it up or possibly this doesnt work with php4???

 

Can you help with this?

[trauch]

It turns out that file_put_contents is only php5 so Im a bit stuck.

 

To say Im a newbie is being generous. I understand fopen and fwrite and used them in a basic open & write script but Im not sure how to associate the commands with this script. Can you help, AGAIN.

 

Thanks a bunch

[Mark Baker]

$lines = file('textfile.txt');
$sum = array_sum($lines);
$fp = fopen('resultfile.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $sum);
fclose($fp);