problem with file_get_contents();

bthomasn

I am trying to save a dynamic page that is generated from my sql database where CookieId is equal to the users cookie that is created when they add items to the cart. I would like this to save a page as their name as a pdf or as a php page that I can then reference via email for them to go to and print their voucher. Below is the code I am working with to save the page as a php page. However this doesn't actually show what the user sees unless I pass an exact ID value for CookieId it will not work if I try to pass any sort of value through post, get, or any other method of passing variables between pages. Can someone please tell me how to fix my issue as I have been trying to figure this out for a while?

[code]

session_start();
$CookieId = $_SESSION["CookieId"];
$handle = file_get_contents("http://www.blackhillscustomtours.com/voucher.php?CookieId='$CookieId'");
$f=@fopen("somefile.php","a");
fwrite($f,$handle);
fclose($f);
[/code]

scross

session_start();
$CookieId = isset($_SESSION["CookieId"]) ? $_SESSION["CookieId"] : (isset($_REQUEST["CookieId"]) ? $_REQUEST["CookieId"] : '');
if(empty($CookieId)){
    die('CookieId was not provided');
}
$handle = file_get_contents("http://www.blackhillscustomtours.com/voucher.php?CookieId='$CookieId'");
$f=@fopen("somefile.php","a");
fwrite($f,$handle);
fclose($f);

btw are you sure you want to open the file in append mode ("a") instead of write mode ("w" - which empties the file before you write to it)??

bthomasn

Thank you for the help. I don't know why I had it in append mode so I did fix that. The first time I ran the new script I received the error. I then tied it to the page that assigns the session variable value to cookieid and it still didn't create the file correctly you can view the result at http://www.blackhillscustomtours.com/somefile.php

the code on the page that I am testing with the assigns the calue is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<?php
	session_start();

include ("../somefile1.php");

$_SESSION["CookieId"] = GetCartId();
?>
</head>
<body>

<a href="../testwrite.php">Write File
</a>
</body>
</html>

bthomasn

I dont know why I was trying it this way but I figured out a much easier solution.