[RESOLVED] fwrite() Q

[f8ball]

I'm trying to set up a script that will create a new directory, copy an existing file to the directory and add a variable (PHP) at the top of the page to populate it dynamically. Everything works EXCEPT I can not us a "$" symbol in my script. It won't show. I've been searching here and there to see if this is doable or if I'm doing something wrong. Here's what I have. Thanks for any help.

// MAKE DIR AND COPY FILE
// *******************
mkdir("../".$_POST['c_section']."/", 0775);
$filename = 'basicIndex.php';
copy($filename, "../".$_POST['c_section']."/index.php");  

$Content = "<?php $section=\"this\"; include (\"../index.php\"); ?>"; // need to add id number to populate the new page info
$newindex = "../".$_POST['c_section']."/index.php";
$handle = fopen($newindex, 'r+b'); 
fwrite($handle, $Content); 
fclose($handle);

[bpat1434]

So, do you want $content to contain a string with a "$" in it? Or the value of $section?

If you want the dollar sign, try either escaping it: \$
or change the quotes from double to single: '<?php $section="this"; include("../index.php"); ?>';

[f8ball]

Thank you! \$ works.

[f8ball]

Sorry ... I jumped the gun a little quickly here. That does work, but the new code written at the top writes over the code on the file that's copied. So if I want to add

<?php $section = "this"; ?>

to a page that starts w/

<?php require_once('this.php'); ?>

the new page will look like

<?php $section = "this"; ?>once('this.php');?>

I'm scratching my head here .. I've tried to but in a return and line break and it still doesn't work.

[bpat1434]

Honestly, I'd go about it this way:

<?php

$old = file_get_contents($newindex);

$new = $Content."\n".$old;

$fp = fopen($newindex, 'wb');
if(@fwrite($fp, $new))
  echo 'Successfully written.';
else
  echo 'Failed to write.';
fclose($fp);

?>

May be easier or more difficult in your situation. Not too sure why your output would be that though.