[RESOLVED] Save text file to another directory

soundslammer

Hiya peeps. I have run my own Windows server for PHP and HTML forms.
An HTML form which filled out and sent goes through action.php which then writes the form information to a text file and saves it to the htdocs directory. I have made another folder named "textfiles", how do I tell the action.php to save the file as normal into the "textfiles" folder?

Many thanks 🙂

maxpup979

when you set the filename of the file you wish to save, you can tack on directory info. for example: you want to save a file test.txt...if you leave it just like that, it should save in the same directory that the script is running in. however, if you had a folder in that directory called archive, you could change the filename to archive/test.txt

That should do the trick

soundslammer

I've changed a few wee things. Firstly, the HTML form's information gets sent to action.php as normal, and action.php saves the form data as a text file named by a box in the html form.
So the line to write the data to the newly created file is this one:

$data = fopen($filename, "a");

When I added the path for the new destination of the newly made text file:

$data = fopen(textfiles/$filename, "a");

... I got the 'don't exist' error.

The folder I want the text files in is in c:\program Files..\htdocs\textfiles
Where the php and html files are in ../htdocs
All of which are on my hard drive.

I've tried the two other following lines I managed to scrounge from other semi-help guides on the net:

fopen("/textfiles/$filename", "a");
and...
fopen("c:\Program Files\..\textfiles\$filename", "a");

None of them work. I'm pretty new, but learning more everyday, help me learn that lil bit more! 😛

soundslammer

Fixed the problem........

// Windows ($data === false)
$data = fopen("C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\textfiles\$filename", 'a');
but got another!

The solution has become another problem itself in another process.

<?
$filename = $_POST["customer"];
// Windows ($data === false)
$data = fopen("$filename", 'rb');
$theData = fread($data, filesize($filename));
echo $theData;
?>

This code opens up a textfile ($filename) from the htdocs folder no problem.... but....

<?
$filename = $_POST["customer"];
// Windows ($data === false)
$data = fopen("C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\textfiles\$filename", 'rb');
$theData = fread($data, filesize($filename));
echo $theData;
?>

This code doesn't work! Can anyone help on this?

Many thanks

maxpup979

whats the error?

soundslammer

the errors are:

Warning: fopen(C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\textfiles\test) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\open.php on line 4

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for test in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\open.php on line 5

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\open.php on line 5

'test' is the textfile without the txt extension.

Matt_Kindig

I'm confused. So what is the complete filename for the 'test' file. If you are trying to open 'test.txt', you need to specify 'test.txt' as the filename...

soundslammer

It was a typo, test was test.txt. But no worries, I sorted the problem out with a few million trial and errors!

Thanks anyways!