Creating a new file and saving variable to it.

[kathrync]

Hello All,

I need to write a program that opens a .txt file on a server (snippet below):

$iHandle = @fopen("http://www.mysite.com/answer_email/sample02.txt", "r");

Read it into a variable, strip some things out of it and then re-save to another
filename (eg http://www.mysite.com/answer_email/sample02.xml).

I don't know how to do this, if the file does not already exist.

Would fwrite($sFileName, $sTemp); be the correct way?

Any help would be appreciated,

Thank you.

[bretticus]

Unless you administer or have web space of the remote server, you surely won't be able to write a file to the remote server. Moreover, you cannot write a file to a remote server with fwrite. If you do administer the remote server, you could make use of PHP's ftp functions to upload a file.

[Rodney_H_]

Hi, Kathryn:

You could try this. I commented it so you could see what I was thinking:

<?php
// define file to read
$file = 'sample02.txt';

// make sure file exists
if(file_exists($file)){

// get contents and turn into a variable/string
$contents = file_get_contents($file);

// strip some things out of contents here
// strip_tags() and trim() as examples
$contents = strip_tags($contents );
$contents = trim($contents);

// define the new file you wish to create
$file2create = 'sample03.txt';

// create handle
$handle = fopen($file2create, 'w');

// write NEW file
$result = fwrite($handle, $contents);

// if the file was created and written to
if($result){
	echo 'contents written to file[' . $file2create . ']';
}

// else error message
else {
	echo 'contents could NOT be written to file[' . $file2create . ']';
}
}

// else 
else {
	echo 'the file [' . $file . '] does NOT exist';
}
?>

I hope this helps....

edit (after reading Bretticus): I was going under the assumption that the files were on your server...