Append to new line in text file

[ajd344]

Hey, I'm appending information to a regular text file (not html). I need to put a new line in for each entry added on, not just add on to it. I tried \n, but it didnt work, it just made a weird square at the end.

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

[hostfreak]

Have you looked at fwrite() in the manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php)? \n should work... did you enclose it in single quotes or double? It would only parse in double.

 

Edit:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.single to further explain what I mean.

[ajd344]

Well, I'm trying to figure this out, but I cant. Here, maybe you spot something in my code:

 

$myFile = "data/data.txt";

$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("error");

fwrite($fh, "$out");

fclose($fh);

 

The output is like this: ([] being a weird square)

entryone[]entrytwo

 

When I copy and paste that square, it makes a new line. Huh.

 

Thanks

[hostfreak]

Where is $out defined?

[ajd344]

Uhm, right above it. The code snip is just the part that works with the file

[hostfreak]

From the manual, with little modification to fit your variable names etc:

<?php
$myFile = 'data/data.txt';
$out = "Add this to the file\n";

$handle = fopen($myFile, 'a');

// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($myFile)) {

    // In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
    // The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence
    // that's where $out will go when we fwrite() it.
    if (!$handle = fopen($myFile, 'a')) {
         echo "Cannot open file ($myFile)";
         exit;
    }

    // Write $out to our opened file.
    if (fwrite($handle, $out) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($myFile)";
        exit;
    }

    echo "Success, wrote ($out) to file ($myFile)";

    fclose($handle);

} else {
    echo "The file $myFile is not writable";
}
?>