Question

I have a variable $Date that is automatically updated each day. I would like to create a new text file each time that there is a new entry. So basically every day.
I would like to use fopen to create a new text file every time a user submits a value, but only for that day. If a user creates another account the next day, it will be a new text file with that date for a name…

I only have three variables, $date, $Name, and $number

Is it possible to create this as follows?

$textmember = "$date.txt"

Answer 1

Yes, you could easily create a new text file each day.

$filename = "$date.txt";
if (! file_exists($filename)) {
    $fp = fopen($filename,'w');
    //write stuff to file
    fclose($fp);
}

If you’re appending data to the file, you don’t even need to do the file_exists() check, you can just use the ‘a’ option of fopen():

$filename = "$date.txt";
$fp = fopen($filename,'a');
//write stuff and close

In this case, the file will be created if it doesn’t exist, and if it does, the data you write will just be appended on the end.