Question

how I can change in cakephp the default directory where the files are created,for example with the function:

$fp = fopen('data.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'example');
fclose($fp);

In cakephp when I do this,files are created by default in webroot, I am interested in change this folder for all created files, I’m not interested in changing it every time I create a file.

So How I change this default directory?

Answer 1

You should specify the path from the webroot /path/to/the/folder/

And in order to do what you want you could define a constant when CakePHP initializes with the path to the specific folder, like this:

define("MY_FILES", "/path/to/the/new/folder");

And when you use fopen, you can do this:

$fp = fopen(MY_FILES.'data.txt', 'w');

Hope that helps.