[SOLVED] Save what my script echos to a file.

[lynxus]

Save what my script echos to a file.

 

Hi guys,

I have a load of PHP scripts that get some basic data from a form and then echo shed loads of config for a cisco device.. Lets say something liek below.. ( This is only a basic example )

 

$ip = $_POST['ip'];
$subnet = $_POST['subnet'];
$description = $_POST['description'];

echo '
conf t <br>
interface x/x <br>
ip address '.$ip.' '.$subnet.' <br>
description '.$description.' <br>
no shutdown <br>
';

 

This is a basic example that would output the config to paste onto a device.

 

My question is HOW can i get this output to save to a file when the script runs?

I need something simple to implement as i have a lot of these and some are MASSIVE.

 

So a easy way to catch the script output that gets sent to teh browser each time it gets run from a post would be GrEAT..

 

ie:

ScriptOutput > file $description_$date.cfg

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

L

 

 

 

[Mark Baker]

Take a look at the output buffering functions

[premiso]

More accurately ob_start ob_get_contents and ob_end_clean

[lynxus]

Cheers guys,

 

From what i can tell though is it will output the data only once?

I still want data to be sent to teh browser, But i also want it sent to a file .

 

 

Hummm.

[premiso]

ob_end_flush

 

You just have to use a different function to send it to the browser.

[Mark Baker]

ob_start();          // Enable output buffer
echo 'Hello World';
echo '<br /> more stuff here';
echo '<br />farewell cruel world';
$output = ob_get_contents();      //  Get all the output that we've just buffered into a single variable
ob_end_flush();                   //  Send the output buffer to the browser
file_put_contents('outFile.txt',$output);    //  Write the output that we put in $output to a file

[lynxus]

Humm , ive tried:

 

ob_start();

$ip = $_POST['ip'];
$subnet = $_POST['subnet'];
$description = $_POST['description'];

echo '
conf t <br>
interface x/x <br>
ip address '.$ip.' '.$subnet.' <br>
description '.$description.' <br>
no shutdown <br>
';

$LogToFile = ob_get_contents();

$myFile = "test.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "$LogToFile";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

ob_end_clean();

 

But that doesnt seem to work, ( No errors mind )

 

Maybe im just being stupid. Sorry im not that great with php

[premiso]

You did not use "flush" you used "clean" instead.

ob_start();

$ip = $_POST['ip'];
$subnet = $_POST['subnet'];
$description = $_POST['description'];

echo '
conf t <br>
interface x/x <br>
ip address '.$ip.' '.$subnet.' <br>
description '.$description.' <br>
no shutdown <br>
';

$LogToFile = ob_get_contents();

$myFile = "test.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "$LogToFile";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

ob_end_flush(); // note the flush not clean.

[lynxus]

Ah sweet, Looks like it gets the data YAY

 

However im having permission errors with apache.

On the off chance, I dont suppose anyone knows how to resolve it ?

 

[Tue Mar 03 17:55:29 2009] [error] [client 195.216.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning:  file_put_contents(outFile.txt) [<a href='function.file-put-contents'>function.file-put-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/101.php on line 318, referer: http://omitted.com/101.html

 

( Its a linux server )

 

If no one knows how to fix then thanks very much for you help on getting the output into a string for me

Its been a pest for a while and now im closer than ever to get it working yay

[premiso]

The file being written to needs to have Write permissions. chmod 0777 will grant it full permissions to anyone.

[lynxus]

It will be a dynamiccly created file ( with a date and time in it when ive finished . )

 

How do i allow the script to create files in the dir Logs .

 

Thsi is what i have for the Dir at the mo.

 

drw-rw-rw- 2 apache apache    4096 Mar  3 18:00 Logs

 

Ive tried root root , But still nada.

 

Thanks

L

[lynxus]

Ah sweet, i just 777'd the directory.

 

Probably not uber secure, but ive touched an index.html in that dir.

 

 

Thanks so much for your help!!!

 

Thanks again

L

 

[Mark Baker]

Well apache shouldn't be running as root anyway, typically it would be running as daemon

 

Check the entries for:

User daemon

Group daemon

in httpd.conf