PHP - Sending information to a file.

[Jonny]

Good day everyone, I'm doing some PHP and wondering how I can send information to a text file. I really don't have any idea how to do this right now, so any input would be excellent!

Thanks!

 

[KH85]

im not sure myself,

but from what i understad, there isnt really way. u need an mySQL server (which is a database) so that when the information is input it saves it in the database.

if i am wrong please can someone put me wrong

hope i helped

Couger / KHGamez

 

[Entity]

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

Read up on those functions and more.

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

Hope those pointers help somewhat. There are a ton of functions for doing this kind of stuff.

Rob

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

$fp = fopen('file.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $variable_with_some_text_in_it);
fclose($fp);

Lots of little tricks you can do though, look through Entity's links and all of the php file functions, you should find exactly what you need.

 

[eklass]

handy functions for you:

function getContents($file) //returns FALSE on failure
{
$fp = @fopen($file, 'r');
if($fp === FALSE)
return FALSE;
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
return $contents;
}
function putContents($file, $string) //returns TRUE/FALSE
{
$fp = @fopen($file, 'w');
if($fp === FALSE)
return FALSE;
$contents = fwrite($fp, $string);
fclose($fp);
return TRUE;
}

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

As usual, I will dissect your code 😉

function getcontents($file) { # i doubt it's a rule or anything, but i thought only class methods were supposed to be capitalized?
return implode("\n", file($file)) or return FALSE;
}

function putcontents($file, $string) {
$fp = fopen($file, 'w') or return FALSE;
fwrite($fp, $string);
fclose($fp);
return TRUE;
}

the first line of putcontents could also be something like:

if(($fp = fopen($file, 'w')) === FALSE) return FALSE;

 

[Jonny]

Thanks a bunch guys, I'm at school right now but I will definately try some of that tonight!