RE: [PHP] create textfile if not existing?

If I understand you properly this code will do what you want <?php // data to write to file $contents = 'your data goes here'; // filename base $filename = 'name'; $startnum = '1'; // get new filename until the filename does not exist while (is_file($filename)) { $filename .= $startnum; } // open the file, write contents and close the file pointer $fp = fopen($filename, 'w'); fputs ($fp, $contents); fclose ($fp); ?> This code will write your contents to a filename with the base of $filename, if the file already exists it will loop until it finds a free file name and then use that to write your contents to. You could improve this code so that it doesn't have to loop through used numbers every time but I wrote it as an example for you, use it if you wish. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Hawk [mailto:hw2k@barrysworld.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:50 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] create textfile if not existing? lets say I have 30 lines of text and I want to store it in a folder called "txt" with the filename $name.txt and, if $name.txt exists, create a $name1.txt or similiar? Håkan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php