Question

I want to create a file on the webserver dynamically in PHP.

First I create a directory to store the file. THIS WORKS

// create the users directory and index page $dirToCreate = '..'.$_SESSION['s_USER_URL']; mkdir($dirToCreate, 0777, TRUE); // create the directory for the user 

Now I want to create a file called index.php and write out some content into it.

I am trying:

$ourFileName = $_SESSION['s_USER_URL'].'/'.'index.php'; $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'x') or die('can't open file'); fclose($ourFileHandle);  // append data to it $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'a') or die('can't write to file');  $stringData = 'Hi';  fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData); 

But it never gets past the $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'x') or die('can't open file'); Saying the file does not exist, but that is the point. I want to create it.

I did some echoing and the path (/people/jason) exists and I am trying to write to /people/jason/index.php

Does anyone have any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

PHP 5 on a linux server I believe.

-Jason

Answer 1

First you do :

$dirToCreate = '..'.$_SESSION['s_USER_URL'];  

But the filename you try to write to is not prefixed with the ‘..’, so try changing

$ourFileName = $_SESSION['s_USER_URL'].'/'.'index.php'; 

to

$ourFileName = '..' . $_SESSION['s_USER_URL'] . '/index.php'; 

or probably tidier:

$ourFileName = $dirToCreate . '/index.php'; 

You are probably getting the warning because the directory you are trying to write the file into does not exist