Question

I have a variable that contains an array from form data, seen below:

$option1 = explode("\n", $_POST['form1']);

I then write the array to another file:

$test = array($option1);
$file = 'test.php';
file_put_contents($file, '<?php \n\n $array=' . var_export($test, true) . ';' . '\n');

I would like to write/include a file or a large amount of code in the test.php file above to manipulate the $array. When trying the below code it just prints the contents of the include file to the current page instead of writing it:

file_put_contents($file, include('includefile.php'));

Answer 1

If I understood well, you would like include the code from includefile.php into your test.php ?

You can’t use include like that, but you should do it like that.

file_put_contents($file, file_get_contents('includefile.php'), FILE_APPEND);

This will append the content from includefile.php into your test.php