[RESOLVED] variable in file copy

[mAGOO]

Hi all,

I'm trying to copy a file from one location and place it in a newly created folder via a basic form. The user enter their ID and then clicks continue.

The process got as follows:

//create user folder and permissions
<?php
mkdir("logs/AN".$_POST[pNum], 0777);
?>


// open txt file for edidting and inserts user ID
<?php

$filename = 'test.ini';
$somecontent = 'PilotNumber=' .$_POST[pNum]; 


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 to file ($filename)";

   fclose($handle);

} else {
   echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?> 

What I'd like to be able to do is to copy the test.ini file into the newly created user folder, then open that file and make changes there. Then the user will have access to their folder where they can download this file.

I have tried using the variable but I get an error :

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/myDomain/public_html/mydir/fsacars/temp/copy.php on line 3"

The code I am trying to use is

<?php
$from = '../test.ini';
$to = '../logs/'.$_POST[pNum]'/AN.ini';
copy($from, $to);
?> 

So the end result should be a folder like /logs/123/test.ini

Hope I made sense and that someone can see where I've gone wrong.

Cheers
Steph.

[toplay]

I didn't read your whole post, but the problem is that you forgot a period.

Change this:
$to = '../logs/'.$_POST[pNum]'/AN.ini';

to this:
$to = '../logs/' . $_POST[pNum] . '/AN.ini';

FYI:

Parse Errors are caused by human error. Usually you want to check on the line of the error, but usually one to many lines before it, for missing closing tags (i.e. ", ), }, ;, etc.).

Here's a list of what those PHP tokens seen in error messages mean:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/tokens.php#tokens

[mAGOO]

Thanks for that it works now.

Cheers

[LoganK]

Please mark this as resolved!