[SOLVED] writing files to a directory

[thewooleymammoth]

How do i write files to a directory?

 

i can only figure out how to make the site open files in the same directory as as the script file, is there osme way to tell it to read or write a directory? say in /files/?

[rarebit]

If your in 'www.there.com/mydir/', then to go up a dir would be '../file.html', or to go into a dir called 'other' use 'other/file.html'.

[thewooleymammoth]

so this should place a file called 1.txt inside www.mysite.com/files/1.txt ?

<?php
$result=1;
$filename=files/$result.".txt";
$openfile = fopen($filename, "a") or die("could not open file $filename");
fwrite($openfile, 'this is the text');
?>

 

 

that doesnt work, it tries to devide files by 1 which is undefined so the file ends in the same directory called 0.txt

[rarebit]

$filename=files/$result.".txt"

should be

$filename="files/".$result.".txt"

[thewooleymammoth]

ah thanks