[SOLVED] Write a PHP file with PHP

[Doqrs]

Hello

 

I am looking to use fwrite to write a php script just as a counter opens up a .txt file.

 

$filename = "dir/" . $time . ".php";
$filewrite = -My PHP script here with <? stuff ?>-
$fp = fopen($filename, "w+");
fwrite($fp, $filewrite);
fclose($fp);

[Daniel0]

<?php
$contents = <<<EOF
all the contents in here
EOF;

$fp = fopen("dir/{$time}.php", "w+");
fwrite($fp, $contents);
fclose($fp);
?>

[Doqrs]

thank you

 

how would i be able to get the <<<EOF heredoc stuff to work if i also want to have actual php code and not just text? I wasn't able to get it to work with this:

 

<?php
$contents = <<<EOF
header("location: somewhere");
EOF;

$fp = fopen("dir/{$time}.php", "w+");
fwrite($fp, $contents);
fclose($fp);
?>

[Daniel0]

The code snippet you posted above works fine for me (also with the opening and closing PHP tags).

[janroald]

Yep, that code snippet should work fine, as Doqrs says. Maybe you have some indentation in your real code that makes it fail, like :

if(smthing) {
  $contents = <<<EOF
  header("location: somewhere");
  EOF;
}

 

In this case, you will get an error, because you cant have spaces or tabs or anything other than "EOF;" on the EOF line.

 

If it's your fopen/fwrite that fails you should check file/folder permissions.

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php

[Doqrs]

thanks a lot, I had the ending heredoc bracket tabbed over and forgot it had to be aligned to the left

[janroald]

Hehe, you replied before i modified my post, and obviously the added info wasn't needed :-)

 

The "left-align" thingy with heredoc is really annoying. Breaks indentation style. i wish for a perl-like qw structure in php :-)

[Daniel0]

It simply just have to be the only thing at that line.

[janroald]

It simply just have to be the only thing at that line.

 

Are you just repeating everything i say in all threads now? ;-)

[Daniel0]

Ah sorry, sometimes I just skip to the last post... Maybe I should start reading the entire topic

[janroald]

Thought you were just trying to get to 1500 posts before midnight, lol :-P

[Daniel0]

That'd be too late. It's 00:07 here.

[janroald]

Here too :-) but you still had a couple of minutes when you wrote your solution :-)