Question

I’ve created a file with fopen as so

            $string = '<?php
    define ("DB_HOST", "'. $_POST["dbhost"]. '");
    define ("DB_USER", "'. $_POST["dbuname"]. '");
    define ("DB_PASS","'. $_POST["dbpass"]. '");
    define ("DB_NAME","'. $_POST["dbname"]. '")
    ?>';
        $confile = "../lib/con.php";
        if (!file_exists($confile)) {
            $fp = fopen($confile, "x") or die("can't open file ".$confile);
            fwrite($fp, $string);
            fclose($fp);
        } else {
            $fp = fopen($confile, "w") or die("can't open file ".$confile);
            fwrite($fp, $string);
            fclose($fp);                
        }

However now if I try to download the file using Dreamweaver or Filezilla it won’t download the file unless I rename it. Can anyone work out what I may be doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Con in a web server sense is considered a reserve, to some web hosts, and that when writing to a file named con, it sometimes fail, if you rename the the file to conn.php it should work.