Easy question regarding quotations marks

[Anon]

Gday Gang,

Just a quick one i cant seem to sort out. I have a php script that echoes information out to my proftpd.conf file.

One of the lines the gets echoed out needs to have quotation marks around it in the proftpd.conf file. But obviously when i put " in there i get parse error, and when i put \ in front of the ", i dont get the quotation marks

Here is the line of code i am trying to use.

exec("echo \"AccessGrantMsg Access Granted For '%u'.\" >> /dir/to/proftpd.conf");

And here is what i actually want to be in the proftpd.conf file

"AccessGrantMsg Access Granted For '%u'."

Including the " marks.

Im sure its just a syntax thing, but being relatively new to php im not quite sure how to conquer it.

Many thanx in advance

Dave

[vsego]

exec("echo \"\\"AccessGrantMsg Access Granted For '%u'.\\"\" >> /dir/to/proftpd.conf");

Why not using:
$f = fopen("/dir/to/proftpd.conf", "a");
fputs($f, "\"AccessGrantMsg Access Granted For '%u'.\"\n");

[Anon]

Howdy Vedran,

Thanx very much for your response, worked a treat.

As you probably gathered from the way im doing it, im pretty new to php.

This is pretty much the reason i did it the way i have. I think its a lot more on the 'simpleton' side of things

However i do understand the way you have set it our above. Ill give that a go as well.

Thanx once again

Dave

[vsego]

Not just 'simpleton'. Calling shell when not actually needed is a bit of an unneeded security risk.