[SOLVED] Writing php to a php file

[rebourne]

Hi, thanks ahead of time to anyone who takes the time to read this.

 

I have a php script that creates a php file with user-specified content. THis is all well and good, however, I wish to include a php script within the content of the created file.

 

I run into the problem when I insert php tags, to specify php code, in the $content variable of the file.

 

Is there a way I can insert a small snippet of php when creating a file? (So the created file will have the php code in it, as php when it is created.)

 

Thanks, I will be glad to clarify if this if it's hard to follow.

[genericnumber1]

<?php
$contents = '<?php echo "hi"; ?>';
file_put_contents('myfile.php', $contents);
?>

[rebourne]

Ahh thank you... For some reason when I had tried to treat it like html tags before, I kept getting T_CONSTANT_VARIABLE unexpected errors... Seems to be working now. Thanks for the help.

[rebourne]

<?php
echo
"<form method="post" action="/create.php">     
<p>Password: <input type="password" name="truepassword" size="30"/></p><BR>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></p>
</form>
";		  		  

if ($truepassword = $des_password)
{
echo "Password Correct";
}
else
{
echo "Login to edit your profile";
}
?>

<center>
Username: one<BR>
Password: \'\'<BR>
True Password: <BR>
Des Password: \'\'<BR>

Other Information: 

 

This is the output of create.php which creates the file with the above contents. When I try to view this file through the browser, I get an "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in .../one.php on line 3"

 

(The "..." is the dir/path to the file, which shouldn't be needed to work the problem..)

 

I have worked on trying to solve this problem since your first reply... No luck. I don't understand where it expects the "," or ";", I am trying to have the created page echo an html form where it can process a password.

 

(Note that the action=/create.php will change to something like action=<? PHP_SELF?> sometime later on, since it is itself that will process the info from the form... If I can get the form working....)

[genericnumber1]

problem you have is you're using double quotes too much...

 

echo
"<form method="post" action="/create.php">     
<p>Password: <input type="password" name="truepassword" size="30"/></p><BR>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></p>
</form>
";

 

should be

 

echo
'<form method="post" action="/create.php">     
<p>Password: <input type="password" name="truepassword" size="30"/></p><BR>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></p>
</form>
';

 

(note the quotes)

 

it should also be "$truepassword == $des_password"

[rebourne]

Then I get

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in .../create.php on line 164

 

Code segment for /create.php:

 

(Line 161) $content = '
(Line 162) <?php
(Line 163) echo
(Line 164) '<form method="post" action="/create.php">
(Line 165) <p>Password: <input type="password" name="truepassword" size="30"/></p><BR>
(Line 166) <p><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></p>
(Line 167) </form>
(Line 168) ';		

   

 

[genericnumber1]

the problem is that you're using a single quote and then using a single quote within your $content, so it can't tell where you want the variable assignment to end and the rest of the code to continue, here's an article on escaping quotes...

http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/read.php/2_6_2

[rebourne]

Thanks, I appreciate your help. Works, finaly .