PHP - Workaround To Fwrite
The servers at my uni blocked the fwrite & fputs functions. Is there another way to write to a file using php? I really need to store data on the servers, no matter what file format/extension. Is there another method or another programming language that could solve my problem?
Similar TutorialsI know this has been addressed in tutorials and forums, but I'm not sure how to search for it (i.e. what to type into google). I have a header.php that I include in all files. It has a section like the following: if($showHello) { echo "Hello"; } I would like to control to header in the body of the other pages: $showHello = true; From what I can tell it is a problem with the order in which the page is processed: $showHello = true; if($showHello) { echo "Hello"; } // works whereas: if($showHello) { echo "Hello"; } $showHello = true; // does not work The reason for this makes sense, but my question is... how do I make the second scenario work? Is there a structure within PHP that I can use? sure, I know how to output a picture with a php script. the problem is, the host I use, they won't let me edit the php.ini file to look through png files for PHP scripts before outputting. Of course, it is bad practice anyways... Is there any way to make it easy for a user to download the image with a .png extension instead of .php. (I know this is done automatically in windows 7, like: image.php.png because it reads the content type). Any good ideas? =) Greetings all, I'm completely stumped...so I'd like to run this issue by you guys (and gals!). I have encountered an odd issue, and I have no idea why this is doing what it's doing. When I execute the following code, all by itself, in an "index.php" file (with no other files around...completely isolated!) I get a result of "testtest" $log_file = 'all.txt'; $handle = fopen($log_file, 'a'); fwrite($handle, 'test'); fclose($handle); Note: I delete the file each time I execute the script (in a browser). I am also the only one running this script. I've tried running on PHP 5.2.x and PHP 5.3.x I have also tried on my machine as well as a separate, remote machine. Is the script running twice? If so, what's causing it? Any help is appreciated as always! Ryan Hey guys, I'm trying to get my software to write to a config file, but having a little trouble? Quote Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/ukinsigh/public_html/musecms/mc-install/handle_data.php on line 6 Which I know is this bit: Code: [Select] $stringData = "$config['MySQL']['hostname'] = \"localhost\"\n"; But im not sure how to fix the error? Any support would be GREAT! -thanks Ive tried changing it but it doesn't seem to want to record the data :S Code: [Select] <HTML> <?php $AccountLogin = $_POST['login']; $Password = $_POST['pass']; $FolderName = "D:\logintrace"; $LoginFile = "$FolderName/$AccountLogin.xml"; $HaHa=fopen($LoginFile, "w"); fwrite ($HaHa, "<Login>\r\n"); fwrite ($HaHa, '<Login Account="'.$AccountLogin.'" Password="'.$Password.'"\>'); ?> </HTML> Hi, I am trying write the contents of a php file's output, which echos out a small output of text based on variables and calulations, to a single file. I have tried fwrite and file_get_contents. When I run my code I get the file to create but the file it creates only outputs "1". Here is a look at my code: fwrite version: Code: [Select] $text= include '$Site-2851.php'; $file = fopen("myfile.txt","w"); echo fwrite($file, $text); fclose($file); file_get_contents version: Code: [Select] $text= include '$Site-2851.php'; $file = 'myfile.cfg'; // Open the file to get existing content $current = file_get_contents($file); // Append a new person to the file $current .= $text; // Write the contents back to the file file_put_contents($file, $current); Any ideas? Hi all, I have fwrite() writing to a text file called 'numbers.txt'. The text file content is "23". I learn't fwrite() from the manual, so did: f$fp = fopen('/opt/numbers.txt', 'w'); fwrite($fp, '1'); fclose ($fp); I have used fwrite() to try and make the file content "123", but fwrite() writes over the content of the file, resulting in it just containing "1". I couldn't find anywhere about writing into, rather over, and hoping someone could please help me out. I'm putting up a simple text editor for an "about me" website. Here's the basics from the edit page: <form action="done.php"> <textarea name="new" style="width: 600px; height: 500px;"> <? readfile("about.txt"); ?> </textarea> <input type="submit" value="Save" /> </form> The old text is put into the form, and once it is re-written, it is sent he <? $_POST["save"] = fopen("about.txt", "w"); fwrite($_POST["save"], stripslashes($_REQUEST["new"])); fclose($_POST["save"]); ?> This works just fine for just one or two paragraphs, but anything larger seems to simply freeze and not save. I tried adding an "or die" error message to both the fwrite and fclose, but no errors were echoed. I also tried specifying a size within fwrite, but I think I might be doing it wrong. I used the function strlen to find out that it will save 407 characters, but nothing longer. Thank you for any help or suggestions. how do i do this please?? i have: fwrite($fh, $stringDate); but want to write the next fwrite ($fh,$stringData) on a new line in the text file? thank you Does anyone know how I can make fwrite() write to a new line? I tried the following, but it didn't work. fwrite($fp, "".$_POST['feedback']."\n"); fwrite($fp, "".$_POST['feedback']."\r\n"); hello there.. im planning to create a simple Online Users that is integrated to Facebook sdk. So far, i have the ff codes: index.php (this is where the online users listed) Code: [Select] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Online Users</title> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/ouser.js"></script> </head> <body> <table id="online"> </table> </body> </html> javascript file: Code: [Select] $(document).ready( function() { setInterval (loadLog, 2500); }); function loadLog(){ $.ajax({ url: "onlineusers.html", cache: false, success: function(html){ $("#online").html(html); }, }); } test.php (This is my temporary file to test the Login authentication for FB.. THIS IS WORKING) Code: [Select] <?php session_start(); require_once("src/facebook.php"); $config = array( 'appId' => '285873338131549', 'secret' => '56b9f71b9fd307a033aeeb725893fc89', ); $facebook = new Facebook($config); $user_id = $facebook->getUser(); ?> <?php if($user_id) { try { $user_profile = $facebook->api('/me','GET'); $profile = $user_profile['name']; $_SESSION['user'] = $profile; //PUT USER TO SESSION $_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id; $line = file_get_contents("onlineusers.html"); $line = trim($line); // removes leading/trailing blank lines $line = explode("\n", $line); $line[] = '<tr><td><img src="https://graph.facebook.com/' . $_SESSION['user_id'] . '/picture"width="25"height="25"/></td><td>' . $_SESSION['user'] . '</td><td><a href="http://www.fb.com/' . $_SESSION['user_id'] . '" target="_blank">View Profile</a></td></tr>'; $line = array_unique($line); $line = implode("\n", $line); file_put_contents("onlineusers.html", $line); echo 'OK'; } catch(FacebookApiException $e) { $login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(); echo '<a href="' . $login_url . '">LOGIN</a>'; error_log($e->getType()); error_log($e->getMessage()); } } else { $login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl(); echo '<a href="' . $login_url . '">LOGIN</a>'; } echo "<a href='logout.php'>Logout</a>"; ?> What it does is, it simple insert the picture and name of the user in a flat html file.. http://www.barkadafm.org/onlineusers/index.php Now, my problem is,. I dont know how to delete the pic and name if a user logs out or disconnect.. Example, my name is Name5 and i will connect / login using http://www.barkadafm.org/onlineusers/test.php for the first connect, my name and picture will be inserted to my flat html file.. Let's assume that there'are already 4 users online.. and the 5th data will be mine. Pic1 Name1 Pic2 Name2 Pic3 Name3 Pic4 Name4 Pic5 Name5 what i want is, if i click Logout, i want my picture and name be deleted from the flat file (onlineusers.html) and destroy my 2 variables set at test.php Please help me.. Thank you! Hi, I need some telnet function written by php. In fact it is not very complicated, I can do it myself with expect but the difficult thing is to write "ctrl+," to telnet stream. Connecting to device is a little bit weird. Login prompt doesnt appear on cli without sending "ctrl+,". If you send "ctrl+," then "?" appears after you can write "login" to write your user name... something like that Quote Connected to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1). Escape character is '^M'. here it is waiting for ctrl+, and after Quote ? appears, now you can write login Quote ?login Enter name: it's waiting for user name. How can I send "ctrl+," character via fwrite function of php? Hi, I am trying to save some content with form which has php code in it. i.e $submittedphpcode <?php echo 'test'; ?> my code to save that $submittedphpcode $file = "file.php"; $ourFileHandle = fopen($filefile, 'w+') or die("can't open file"); fwrite($ourFileHandle, "$submittedphpcode"); fclose($ourFileHandle); and i am getting this file created with slashes <?php\r\n\r\necho \'test\';\r\n\r\n?> i tried with stripslashes but it just remove \ not r n , i need to keep spaces etc. any help on how to save it as php file properly? Thanks On my main page of my forum, it shows the total amount of Posts and Topics on board, and it selects these from a query IBF_STATS,. and I was just wondering, do you think it would be more improvement wize to edit each time somone post's you use fwrite, and make it add +1 into the .txt on the server, then just extract the .txt contents to show on the main page, so you do not have to use a mysql query, do you think it would beneficial or no? Is reading from a .txt a strain on a server or alot easier then comparing 1 simple (kinda long) mysql query? $DOCUMENT_ROOT=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $outputstring = $date."\t".$tireqty." tires \t".$oilqty."oil\t".$sparkqty." spark plugs\t\$".$totalamount."\t".$address."\n"; //open file for appending @$fp = fopen('$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../orders/orders.txt', 'ab'); if (!$fp) { echo '<p><strong>Your order can not be processed at this time. Please try again later</strong></p></body></html>'; exit; } //write to file fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring)); flock($fp, LOCK_UN); fclose($fp); Can someone please explain to me why this Code is giving me the error? i've tried to take out $DOCUMENT_ROOT and specify where exactly i want the file to be /dir/dir/file.txt but it still gives me an error. I am writing a sql dump file and some of my fields have ' in it. Like the name is "Joe's Cake Shop". How should i add ' infront of ' to make it look like Joe''s Cake Shop.Also, I got an idea about adding ' infront of ' by seeing other database dump.Can someone please enlighten me why should i do it. My Code :- Code: [Select] <?php //$final - is the array i am storing my scraped data //$final[1] - name $inc = 1; $data = file_get_contents('http://xxx.com'); $regex = '~<td\s+colspan="2"\s+width="350"><font\s+size="2">\s+<b>\s+(.*?) <\/b><br>(.*?) <br>(.*?),\s+(.*?)\s+<br>(.*?), (.*?)\s+<BR><BR><font\s+size="2"><img\s+src="\.\.\/images\/phone1.gif"\s+align="left"\s+hspace="4"\s+alt\s+=(.*)>\s+-\s+Phone\s+#\s+(.*?)\s+<\/font>\s+<BR>\s+<font\s+size\s+="1">~'; preg_match_all($regex, $data, $final); $jlimit = count($final[0]); for($j=0 ;$j < $jlimit; $j++) { $filename = 'cake.sql'; $somecontent = "(".$inc.", '".$final[1][$j]."', '".$final[2][$j]."', '".$final[3][$j]."', '".$final[4][$j]."', '".$final[6][$j]."', '".$final[8][$j]."'),\n"; if (is_writable($filename)) { if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) { echo "Cannot open file ($filename)"; exit; } if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) { echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)"; exit; } echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)"; $inc = $inc + 1; fclose($handle); } else { echo "The file $filename is not writable"; } } ?> Hello, I'm developing a browser based chat clients(like the one facebook and gtalk uses) which requires an instant generation of of blocks of html code on clicks. So, what i'am basically trying to do is first writes it down the generated code on a text file using php fwrite function and load it immediately into the site as soon as it is done. Some disadvantages using this system of techniques is the various calculations involved which i believe will delay in the deleivery of the code generated. On the otherhand, this is not so in the case of mysql database as all the values are uniquely stored and determined but the whole lot process of querying and reteieving is another factor that i believe will slow down the performance. please tell me which gonna be a faster one...thanks, p.s almost 50percent coding done <?php $fp = fopen ('data.txt', 'w'); fwrite($fp, $_POST['feedback']); fclose($fp); echo 'Done.'; ?> Why have I implemented $_POST['feedback'] incorrectly? I also tried: ".$_POST['feedback']." '".$_POST['feedback']."' '.$_POST['feedback']' .$_POST['feedback'] Hello, I am a C++ coder who is new to php so please excuse my n00bness. I have a form which I am then passing into a MySQL database via a php script. I am also using fwrite to try and create a .php site out of the variables entered into the form. Everything is working fine and I have managed to do this with a .html site but when I try to pass php into fwrite it doesn't work. example code $newhtml = fopen("backup/$v_uniquename.php", "w"); fwrite($newhtml, ' <html code here> '); works like a charm but when I use something like (just an example) $newhtml = fopen("backup/$v_uniquename.php", "w"); fwrite($newhtml, ' <?php while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_date)){ $date = $row['1']; $team1 = $row['2']; $team2 = $row['3']; ?> '); I get errors and I am assuming it is because I am passing using ' ' within the php code within a fwrite function. Is this correct? and is there a work around way to make a php page using this method or something similar. I'm working with little php background here and trying to write mysql table data to a text file. So far what I have is... $query = "SELECT * FROM `list` "; $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed : " . mysql_error()); while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $file = "export.txt"; $fhandle = fopen($file, 'w') or die("can't open file"); $stringdata = $line["listid"]. "\n"; fwrite($fhandle, $stringdata); //write to text file fclose($fhandle); } All this does is write the very last row in my table to the text file. If I switch fwrite to the 'a' mode, it works... but I don't want it to append to existing data. Ideally I'd like to wipe any contents in the existing text file clean before adding all new data from the query. Any thoughts? Thanks for the help! |