generating files with php

sblaw · #1 26-Jul-2004, 01:34

is it possible to generate files with php as it is with java? i mean, can you have your output written in an text or an xml file?
it IS possible to dynamically generate an xml file, but how to save this output?
thank you very much for your help!

cs2 · #2 07-Aug-2004, 09:31

You can't do it in a single step, but I think fwrite will do what you want.

tubedogg · #3 09-Aug-2004, 10:52

This is some psuedo-code that would do what you want:

PHP Code:


<?

$myfile = '/home/example/public_html/test.xml';
$myoutput = 'This is some sample text.';

// open the file, the 'w' indicates we wish to erase the contents and write from the beginning of the file. you could also use 'a' to append the existing contents.
$fp = fopen($myfile, 'w');
// write to the file
fwrite($fp, $myoutput);
// close the file
fclose($fp);

?>

JasonMichael · #4 10-Aug-2004, 00:04

I have a program that basically rewrites code I use for my Content Management system, everytime I add a new module. I create a table in the database and it rewrites the code to access the new table that the module will use.

Anyway, the problems I ran into early on in the project was making sure that PHP had proper permission to write to the directory. I believe I also had to use the umask function to make sure that all files written would get certain permissions. I would call umask, before doing anything file writes (fwrite).

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