[RESOLVED] Variable not getting processed

Ok i have some php code that will save a webpage to the webserver, with this variable:

$file_to_save = "../../../archives/docs/account_details/text.txt";

that works and saves the file under the name 'text.txt'

But when i try to save it as a variable it doesn't save the file at all

Here's what i tried:

$file_to_save = "../../../archives/docs/account_details/$uic.txt";

also tried:

$file_to_save = "../../../archives/docs/account_details/" . $uic . ".txt";

both do not save the file. I even did an echo $uic; and it printed the name right on the screen. Any thoughts on this?

What is a typical value for $uic ? (I'm just wondering if you might be trying to create an illegal file name.)

its a 25 digit number.

does anybody know if thats an illegal file name?

As far as I know that should be legal on UNIX/Linux systems and any reasonably current Windows OS.

What do you get if you echo $file_to_save after defining it?

ok $uic was set to: 9534687456982314621578632

and when i did an echo $file_to_save; heres what i got:

../../../archives/docs/account_details/9.53468745698E+24.txt

its making it a decimal and adding that E+24 to the end any ideas on how to prevent this?

Try this:

$file_to_save = "../../../archives/docs/account_details/" . (string)$uic . ".txt";

If that doesn't do it, try:

$file_to_save = sprintf("../../../archives/docs/account_details/%s.txt", $uic);

thanks alot. the first one worked fine for me.