[RESOLVED] fopen file and save as different name

[RickL66]

I have a text file that I want to keep as a template, and not overwrite it. I'm trying to figure out how to write to a different file name. Seems the fwrite only writes back to the same file. Is fwrite the wrong function to use? This is part of my code:

$OPSname = $_POST['OPSname'];

$myTemplate = 'OPS_template.txt';
$fh = fopen($myTemplate, 'w+');
$data = fread($fh, filesize($myTemplate));

// update name field
$data = str_replace("@name", $OPSname, $data);

fwrite($fh, $data); // I need to write to a different filename
fclose($fh);

[bradgrafelman]

To write to a different file, you'd want to open a new stream to that different file.

However, note that you could reduce the code down quite a bit by simply using [man]file_get_contents/man and [man]file_put_contents/man.

[RickL66]

bradgrafelman;10999853 wrote:

However, note that you could reduce the code down quite a bit by simply using [man]file_get_contents/man and [man]file_put_contents/man.

That is MUCH easier, and I can get the results I want. Thanks!

$OPSname = $_POST['OPSname'];

$data = file_get_contents('OPS_03242012.txt');
$data = str_replace("@name", $OPSname, $data);

file_put_contents($OPSname . '.txt', $data);