Create Files Remotely

[Anon]

Hi, my company's website host is Mindspring. They allow us to use PHP3.

I want to know how to create a file dynamically. the name is based off the customer name, and a counter (counts up from 1)

I believe the system is Unix/Linux. I tried "touch", because I know you can execute command line commands using PHP (yes, I'm new to php).

so I wanted to know the command...

here's what I had and it doesn't work:
...

$order_file = "$name$counter.doc";
touch $order_file

...
but it won't create the file ($name and $counter come in from a previous form submit)

I tried fwrite (I'm sure that's the wrong command to use, but I tried anyway) but it wouldn't find the file.

please, any help would be awesome!

[chowdary]

Hi,
You can use

     $file_name=$name.$counter.'.doc';

   $fp=fopen($file_name,"w+");

With this PHP creates a new file if it doesn't exist.
Note: I am not sure about ".doc" files but it works for ".txt" files.

Cheers
Ajay

[Anon]

Oh, right on.. I'll try that when I get to work. Thanks yo! ;D