PHP: Create a File on your Server

Contributed by William_Wilson  
Tagged: PHP programming  

Create an empty file on the server that can be written to.

The handle is the file to be written to, and the filename is of course the name of the file being created. Using these simple commands you can create and add text to your file.

<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$Content = "Add this to the file\r\n";
 
echo "open";
$handle = fopen($filename, 'x+');
echo " write";
fwrite($handle, $Content);
echo " close";
fclose($handle);
 

?>


There is a tester commented out here, which displays whether the file was created and/or written to.

The modifier x+ creates a file that is to be written to and still open. There are many more such as a, a+ for appending, and r, r+ for reading.

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William. § (marvin_gohan)