I just want to write a file to disk

[Anon]

Hello, this is my script.

$toss= "/home/htdocs/php/test.html";
$fp = fopen("http://www.website.co.uk/index.html", "r");
$result = fwrite($fp, $toss);

if ($result == false)
{
return "Error: could not write to the file!";
exit;
}

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Why wont it work?

Glenn

[lentin64]

Your fopen() is at "r", it has to be at "w"

[Anon]

I just tried that and it doesnt seem to work, its not giving me any errors but I cant find the file anywhere!

[Anon]

I just want to add that I am trying to load a file from the web and save its source to disk. I need to do this as its a datbase driven site and I want to turn all my pages into static html! so search engines can see it!

Im desperately trying to find resources that make sense but cant!

[Anon]

Your code isn't even close to what you want to do.

The following functions are intended to be used together. Read the man pages for each:

fopen
fread
fwrite
fclose

First you fopen() a file, then you can read or write to it (depending on the mode in which it was opened), then you should close it when you're done.

PHP supports opening remote HTTP URLS for reading, but not for writing.

When you use fopen(), it returns a file pointer. NOT a string containing the file.

To read the file, you have to call fread() with the proper arguments, INCLUDING the valid file pointer.

To use fwrite(), you have to fopen() the local file with the proper arguments, and then call fwrite(), passing the local file pointer as well as the data to be written.

You should ALWAYS check the value of the returned file pointer after calling fopen() to ensure that the call succeeded. If you try to open a nonexistent file for reading, or if you do now have write permissions to the directory you're trying to write into, fopen() will return a null value.

$maxfile = 500000; // some reasonable limit
$toss= "/home/htdocs/php/test.html";

$fp = fopen("http://www.website.co.uk/index.html", "r");
if (!$fp) die('Could not open remote file');

// now read up to $maxfile bytes
$remotedata = fread($fp, $maxfile);

fclose($fp😉

// now open the local file

$fp = fopen($toss,'w');
if (!$fp) die("Unable to open $toss");

// write the data
fwrite($fp,$remotedata));

fclose($fp);

[Anon]

1. You have to open the page you want, and buffer its contents into a temp buffer space. You now have the source in memory

2. Open the file where its going to disk at and write the buffer to disk

   $fd = fopen("http://www.website.co.uk/index.html", "r");
   while (!feof ($fd))
   {
   $buffer .= fgets($fd, 4096);
   }
   fclose ($fd);

   $fp = fopen("/home/htdocs/php/test.html","w");
   $result = fwrite($fp,$buffer);
   fclose ($fp);
   if ($result == false)
   {
   return "Error: could not write to the file!";
   exit;
   }