Question

I experimenting with twitter streaming API,
I use Phirehose to connect to twitter and fetch the data but having problems storing it in files for further processing.
Basically what I want to do is to create a file named

date("YmdH")."."txt"  

for every hour of connection.

Here is how my code looks like right now (not handling the hourly change of files)

public function enqueueStatus($status)
$data = json_decode($status,true);
if(isset($data['text'])/*more conditions here*/) {
  $fp = fopen("/tmp/$time.txt");
  fwirte ($status,$fp);
  fclose($fp);
}

Help is as always much appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

You want the ‘append’ mode in fopen – this will either append to a file or create it.

if(isset($data['text'])/*more conditions here*/) {
    $fp = fopen("/tmp/" . date("YmdH") . ".txt", "a");
    fwrite ($status,$fp);
    fclose($fp);
}