File Put Contents Pathname

[qwertyportne]

Hello to the Forum. I need to revise this script so it saves the user's form data to a subdirectory called new rather than the root directory (where this code is now). Please note the workaround I had to add to accomodate the older version of php on the server. I've tried a few things but am too new to php to get it working. Any help I can get is appreciated. Thanks,

 

Bill

 

 

 

 
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','on');
 
//begin workaround
if (!function_exists('file_put_contents')) {
    function file_put_contents($template_file_name, $template_html) {
        $f = @fopen($template_file_name, 'w');
        if (!$f) {
            return false;
        } else {
            $bytes = fwrite($f, $template_html);
            fclose($f);
            return $bytes;
        }
    }
}
//end workaround

//name of the template file
$tpl_file = "1.bio.template.php";
//determine if form has been submitted
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
 //very simple form filter and validation
 $data = array();
 $data['firstname'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['firstname']));
 $data['lastname'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['lastname']));
 $data['email'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
 $data['clubs'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['clubs']));
 $data['years'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['years']));
 $data['bikes'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['bikes']));
 $data['classes'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['classes']));
 $data['number'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['number']));
 $data['hobbies'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['hobbies']));
 $data['highlights'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['highlights']));
 $data['comments'] = trim(strip_tags($_POST['comments']));
 $placeholders = array("{firstname}", "{lastname}", "{email}", "{clubs}", "{years}", "{bikes}", "{classes}", "{number}", "{hobbies}", "{highlights}", "{comments}");
// Establish required entries -- first and last name become filename for users bio
if(!empty($data['firstname']) && !empty($data['lastname']) && !empty($data['email']) ){
 //load the template file
  $tpl = file_get_contents($tpl_file);
 //replace placeholders with the submited data
  $template_html = str_replace($placeholders, $data, $tpl);
 //build the template using last name and first as file name
  $template_file_name = $data['lastname']."_".$data['firstname'].".htm";
 //create the file with form contents
  file_put_contents($template_file_name, $template_html);
 //display photo upload form
  header('location: 2.photo.upload.php');
  exit;
}
}
?>
 

[Psycho]

 

$template_file_name = $data['lastname']."_".$data['firstname'].".htm";

 

Have you tried adding the path to the variable above which you are passing to the file_put_contents() function? Something like:

 

 

$template_file_name = "subFolderName/" . $data['lastname']."_".$data['firstname'].".htm";

 

Or, my preference:

 

$template_file_name = "subFolderName/{$data['lastname']}_{$data['firstname']}.htm";

[qwertyportne]

I got it to work this morning on my local server (XAMMP version 5,3) by adding the subfolder "new" to both the original file_put_contents function and my php version 4 workaround, as below. Was pretty happy about that, then tried it on my friend's (php version 4 something) server but no go. It took me more than a week to finally get the workaround to work because I'm just getting my head into php. Told him it was working now and have a beer. He tried it, liked it alot, but then asked me to have the new users profiles saved in a "new" subfolder so he would not confuse them with older existing profiles. Made sense to me so I have been trying to accomodate him. My suspicions are that my change is somehow stopping the workaround from working but even though I have the error reporting routine in the script I'm not getting any errors. It originally helped me discover that file_put_contents is not recognized by version 4. Hence my looking for a workaround. Yikes, what a mess. Any more ideas? I'll definitely try your suggestions though. Thanks. Should I add your suggested change to both the workaround and the file_put_contents function?

 

 

 

//begin workaround
if (!function_exists('file_put_contents')) {
    function file_put_contents($template_file_name, $template_html) {
        $f = @fopen("new/" . $template_file_name, 'w');
        if (!$f) {
            return false;
        } else {
            $bytes = fwrite($f, $template_html);
            fclose($f);
            return $bytes;
        }
    }
}
//end workaround
 

[qwertyportne]

Answered my own question. Thanks. Your change worked great! Wish my brain had a bit more php intuition. I'm getting there. Slowly...