[SOLVED] the date in a filename

[yogibear]

Hi everyone quick question about adding the date to a file name

 

this is what i have so far

$date = date("Y/m/d");

// Open file 'backup.csv'.
$f = fopen ('backup.csv','w');

// Put all values from $out to backup.csv. 
fputs($f, $out);
fclose($f);


header('Content-type: application/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="backup.csv"');
readfile('backup.csv');
?>

 

I have tried a few things but got so many errors I thought I would remove them and ask for help before the whole thing stopped working.

 

Many thanks

 

yogi

[Caesar]

<?php

  $filename = date("m_d_Y",time()).'backup.csv';

  header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');

?>

[Wuhtzu]

Well you do not state what your problem are nor what you want to do, but it seems to have something to do with adding a date to a file name... It can be done very easily:

 

<?php

//Get the date. Do _NOT_ use slashes!
$date = date("Y-m-d");

//Create the filename variable from a string, the date and an extension
$filename = 'backup_' . $date . '.csv';

?>

 

If the $date variable in the script you posted was the one you used to create the filename it failed because you used slahes in your date. You can't have slashes or backslashes in a filename since they separate each "element" in the path (drive, folder, filename). backup_2007/07/14.csv would be a file named 14.csv inside a folder called 07 which is inside a folder called backup_2007...

 

[yogibear]

Hi thanks for your help works perfectly now

 

many thanks

 

yogi

[Wuhtzu]

Good

 

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