RE: [PHP] fwrite() Append Files

Hi, Right now I enforced the file to read in through HTTP-Request and output it to a local file. Looks like this functioned perfectly after I used append functions after I attempted to write to the file! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Alice ====================================================== Alice Wei MIS 2009 School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington ajwei@indiana.edu ________________________________________ From: Jim Lucas [lists@cmsws.com] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:45 PM To: Wei, Alice J. Cc: Per Jessen; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] fwrite() Append Files Jim Lucas wrote: > Wei, Alice J. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is my current code: >> >> $lines = >> file("http://www.mysite.com/hello.txt"); >> >> $file="http://www.mysite.com/hello.txt"; >> > > You are referring to the file from the website point of view. > > You must access it from the filesystem point of view > > $file = '/path/to/public_html/hello.txt'; > > > >> >> >> $ourFileName = "hello.txt"; >> >> $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'wb') or die("can't open >> file"); >> >> fclose($ourFileHandle); >> >> >> $newFileName="http://www.yoursite.com/hello.txt"; >> > > Same thing here. You are never going to be able to write to that file. > The webserver will never allow it. > I guess I should have suggested a work around in this case. You will need to create the file locally and then transfer via ftp/scp/etc.... the newly created file to the remote server. I built an FTP client once with PHP using the built in FTP functions. You will probably need to do something similar. >> >> >> echo $newFileName; >> >> $result=rename($ourFileName, $newFileName); >> >> $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'wb') or die("can't open >> file"); >> >> >> >> // Loop through our array, show HTML source as HTML source; and line >> numbers too. >> >> >> >> foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { >> >> >> >> echo "<p>Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . >> htmlspecialchars($line) >> . "</p>"; >> >> $ourFileHandle = fopen($newFileName, 'wb') or die("can't open >> file"); >> >> $content=fwrite($ourFileHandle, htmlspecialchars($line)); >> >> echo "<p>The line: $content has been written into >> $newFilename</p>"; >> >> } >> >> fclose($ourFileHandle); >> >> Do you mean to edit $ourFileHandle to fopen($ourFileName, 'wba')? >> >> What I really wanted to do is to copy the file directory from $file to >> $newFileName directory using the cp command or something, but if I >> cannot do that, writing in and out of the file may be good enough. >> >> Alice >> ====================================================== >> Alice Wei >> MIS 2009 >> School of Library and Information Science >> Indiana University Bloomington >> ajwei@indiana.edu >> ________________________________________ >> From: Per Jessen [per@computer.org] >> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:26 AM >> To: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP] fwrite() Append Files >> >> Wei, Alice J. wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wonder if anyone on the list could tell me how to append the files >>> as I am writing in them. I have a file that has no more than five >>> characters per line, and I would like to keep its spacing between >>> the lines. Right now I have the set up so that it could write in the >>> first line, but the problem is that all the lines after it never get >>> written in to the desired file. >> >> You need to open the file in append mode = 'a+'. >> >> >> /Per Jessen, Zürich >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare