Question

I am learning php. I want to write string to file, but nothing happens.
How can I debug it? I have experience with python. there I could use terminal
to try small code snippets, but I don’t know how check code in php.

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');
$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";
$myvar = fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

Answer 1

Debugging in php always starts with turning up error reporting

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);


$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');
$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";
$myvar = fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

chances are good that you will now see a somewhat descriptive error message. googling php error messages is often helpful.