Writing "$subject" into a txt file...

[Anon]

I want to write "$subject" into a txt file so i can later open it with a php file, and easily include the $subject

such as.

My script:

($nid is a number...)

<?php

$fi=fopen("database/$nid.txt", "w");
fwrite($fi, "$subject='subject1'; $description='description1';");
fclose($fi);

?>

However, as $subject=0 and description = 0 the product is:

='subject1' ='description 1'

(these will be variables)

but i want it to write:

$subject='subject1' $description='description 1'

So how can i write $subject into the php script without it processing it?

[Anon]

Escape the $ like this ...
fwrite($fi, "\$subject='subject1'; \$description='description1';");

[techek]

Hiya Andrew

One thing is that you seem to mix up the way variables are intended to be used - that is, when you want to write "$description='<value_of_description>'" in your file, the $description is parsed by PHP into "nonsens". So what you also could do (somewhat like David's solution) would be to use single-quotes (') instead of double-quotes (") like this :

fwrite($fi, '$subject="subject1"; $description="description1";');

However! If you want to use variables in the string you can do the same, with a little change :

fwrite($fi, '$subject="'.$subject.'"; $description="'.$description.'";');

I hope you can see what I'm doing? I suggest you take a good look at strings and quoting because it's going to mean a whole lot more later on in your "PHP-career".

[Anon]

Whoo whoo!

They both world! Thanks!