I want to compare two files to check whether the second file is modified from the first file.
For this implementation I have planned to compare the md5_file() of the both files. But the problem is the original file is created by the Unix line coding and second file might be any type of line coding (Unix, Mac or Windows).
So the file compare always fails.
How to solve this issue?.
I have tried to remove the white spaces from the both files then proceeded the comparison. But this method also fails. Is there any other way to solve issue?
Im not supposed to copy or change the second file.
Fixed Myself as follows
$file1 = md5(preg_replace('/\s/', '', file_get_contents($file1)));
$file2 = md5(preg_replace('/\s/', '', file_get_contents($file2)));
if ($file1 == $file2)
continue;
Simply replace all of the line endings in the second file with the unix style, but only do it to a temp file or such so you can preserve the original.
Depending on how big the files are, you could just read them into strings, taking the encoding into account, and then md5 those strings.
$file1 = file_get_contents($file_url_1);
$file2 = file_get_contents($file_url_2);
$file1 = mb_convert_encoding($file1, "UTF-8", "whateverEncoding");
$file2 = mb_convert_encoding($file2, "UTF-8", "whateverOtherEncoding");
if (md5($file1) == md5($file2))
....
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What is the best way to overwrite a specific line in a file? I basically want to search a file for the string '#parsethis' and overwrite the rest of that line with something else.
If the file is really big (log files or something like this) and you are willing to sacrifice speed for memory consumption you could open two files and essentially do the trick Jeremy Ruten proposed by using files instead of system memory.
$source='in.txt';
$target='out.txt';
// copy operation
$sh=fopen($source, 'r');
$th=fopen($target, 'w');
while (!feof($sh)) {
$line=fgets($sh);
if (strpos($line, '#parsethis')!==false) {
$line='new line to be inserted' . PHP_EOL;
}
fwrite($th, $line);
}
fclose($sh);
fclose($th);
// delete old source file
unlink($source);
// rename target file to source file
rename($target, $source);
If the file isn't too big, the best way would probably be to read the file into an array of lines with file(), search through the array of lines for your string and edit that line, then implode() the array back together and fwrite() it back to the file.
Your main problem is the fact that the new line may not be the same length as the old line. If you need to change the length of the line, there is no way out of rewriting at least all of the file after the changed line. The easiest way is to create a new, modified file and then move it over the original. This way there is a complete file available at all times for readers. Use locking to make sure that only one script is modifying the file at once, and since you are going to replace the file, do the locking on a different file. Check out flock().
If you are certain that the new line will be the same length as the old line, you can open the file in read/write mode (use r+ as the second argument to fopen()) and call ftell() to save the position the line starts at each time before you call fgets() to read a line. Once you find the line that you want to overwrite, you can use fseek() to go back to the beginning of the line and fwrite() the new data. One way to force the line to always be the same length is to space pad it out to the maximum possible length.
This is a solution that works for rewriting only one line of a file in place with sed from PHP. My file contains only style vars and is formatted:
$styleVarName: styleVarProperty;\n
For this I first add the ":" to the ends of myStyleVarName, and sed replaces the rest of that line with the new property and adds a semicolon.
Make sure characters are properly escaped in myStyleVarProp.
$command = "pathToShellScript folder1Name folder2Name myStyleVarName myStyleVarProp";
shell_exec($command);
/* shellScript */
#!/bin/bash
file=/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/$1/$2/scss/_variables.scss
str=$3"$4"
sed -i "s/^$3.*/$str;/" $file
or if your file isn't too big:
$sample = file_get_contents('sample');
$parsed =preg_replace('##parsethis.*#', 'REPLACE TO END OF LINE', $sample);
You'll have to choose delimiters '#' that aren't present in the file though.
If you want to completely replace the contents of one file with the contents of another file you can use this:
rename("./some_path/data.txt", "./some_path/data_backup.txt");
rename("./some_path/new_data.txt", "./some_path/data.txt");
So in the first line you backup the file and in the second line you replace the file with the contents of a new file.
As far as I can tell the rename returns a boolean. True if the rename is successful and false if it fails. One could, therefore, only run the second step if the first step is successful to prevent overwriting the file unless a backup has been made successfully. Check out:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php
Hope that is useful to someone.
Cheers
Adrian
I'd most likely do what Jeremy suggested, but just for an alternate way to do it here is another solution. This has not been tested or used and is for *nix systems.
$cmd = "grep '#parsethis' " . $filename;
$output = system($cmd, $result);
$lines = explode("\n", $result);
// Read the entire file as a string
// Do a str_repalce for each item in $lines with ""
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$file = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$fh = fopen($file,'r+');
// string to put username and passwords
$users = '';
while(!feof($fh)) {
$user = explode(' ',fgets($fh));
foreach ($user as $value)
{
$number= rand(1000,10000);
$final_number[] = $value .','. $number;
}
}
//print_r($final_number);
file_put_contents($_FILES['file']['name'], $final_number);
}
this is my code for appending a random text to a string with comma and save it in text file but when i am saving it it is not saving properly after comma it is going to next line which should not happen plzz.. help me
Your code starts with a very big issue: you try to open and read from a file that, most probably, doesn't exist.
$file = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$fh = fopen($file,'r+');
As you can read in the documentation, assuming that your form contains an input element of type file having the name file, $_FILES['file']['name'] is the original name of the uploaded file, on the user's computer. It is only the name and it is not the name of the file on the server. It is provided just as a hint for the file's content (check the filename extension) but you cannot rely on it.
The content of the file is temporarily stored on the webserver in a file whose path can be found in $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']. You should pass it to the PHP function is_uploaded_file() to be sure the file was uploaded and your script is not the victim of an injection attempt then, if you need to keep it, use move_uploaded_file() to move it where you need. If you don't move it, when your script ends the temporary file is deleted.
Another problem of your code is on the lines:
$user = explode(' ',fgets($fh));
foreach ($user as $value)
As explained in the documentation, the function fgets() called without a second argument reads a line from the input file, including the newline character that ends it. Since you split the line into words I think you don't need the newline character. You can remove it by using trim() with the string returned by fgets() before passing it to explode().
The last issue of the code is:
file_put_contents($_FILES['file']['name'], $final_number);
Because $final_number is an array1, file_put_contents() joins its elements to get a string and writes the string into file. This operation concatenates the random value generated for a $value with the next $value and there is no way to tell which is which after the data is stored in the file. You probably need to keep them on separate lines. Use function implode() on $final_number, with "\n" as its first argument and write the generated string into the file instead.
The last one: don't write the generated content to $_FILES['file']['name']. It is not safe! It contains a string received from the browser; a malicious user can put whatever path they want there and your script will overwrite a file that it shouldn't change.
Create a directory dedicated to store files generated by your code and generate filenames based on an always incremented counter (the current time() or microtime() f.e.) for the files you store there. Never trust the data you receive from the browser.
1 $final_number is used as $final_number[] = ... and, because it is not defined when this line of code is executed for the first time, PHP creates an empty array for you and stores it in $final_number. Don't rely on this feature. Always initialize your variables before their first use. Put $final_number = array(); before the while().
I am going to use a different approach than you, let's say that the data you want to save to the file is stored in the variable $data.
So to append this data to the file with a comma at first, we can use just two lines of code:
$previousFileContent = file_get_contents("filename.txt");
file_put_contents("filename.txt", trim($previousFileContent . "," . $data));
I am using Jquery uploader to upload images to my website. It uses a file called uploadhandler.php to manipulate the files. Inside the uploadhandler.php is the following function which appears to make changes to how the filename is formatted etc.
The problem I am having is if I upload a file with spaces in the file name it doesn't appear to be removing the spaces in the file name. Does anyone know how I can edit it to add an extra command to remove any spaces in the file name, or point me in the right direction on how to do it ?.
protected function trim_file_name($name, $type, $index, $content_range) {
// Remove path information and dots around the filename, to prevent uploading
// into different directories or replacing hidden system files.
// Also remove control characters and spaces (\x00..\x20) around the filename:
$file_name = trim(basename(stripslashes($name)), ".\x00..\x20");
// Add missing file extension for known image types:
if (strpos($file_name, '.') === false &&
preg_match('/^image\/(gif|jpe?g|png)/', $type, $matches)) {
$file_name .= '.'.$matches[1];
}
while(is_dir($this->get_upload_path($file_name))) {
$file_name = $this->upcount_name($file_name);
}
$uploaded_bytes = $this->fix_integer_overflow(intval($content_range[1]));
while(is_file($this->get_upload_path($file_name))) {
if ($uploaded_bytes === $this->get_file_size(
$this->get_upload_path($file_name))) {
break;
}
$file_name = $this->upcount_name($file_name);
}
return $file_name;
}
The line:
$file_name = trim(basename(stripslashes($name)), ".\x00..\x20");
Will remove spaces "around" the filename, such as "foo " because of the x20 bit which is a space. You could simply add directly after this line:
$file_name = str_replace(" ", "", $file_name);
Easy as that! Also remember, when you use the 2nd parameter in trim() you remove the "default" list of characters listed in the manual ( http://php.net/trim ) and replace it with your own ...
I would also point out, I would never use the filename as given by the browser in $_FILES[$x]['name'] ... It simply opens too many questions and possibilities up. One technique to avoid the issue altogether might be to simply use the md5() or sha1() or similar of the file's contents, example:
$file_name = md5_file($_FILES['your_file_tag_name']['tmp_name']);
That way in theory, you never ever have spaces in the files, or "dirty" filenames ... And in addition, if a user uploads two files with the precise same contents, you simply need to check for the file's existance, and if it already exists, you already have that exact same file. Hope this helps, this all assumes you're doing file uploads, which I'm not 100% certain you are.
I want to store a path (pointing to a directory) in a text file and open the path when required in PHP. Here's what I have done, which is quite simple but doesn't really work.
$dir = file_get_contents('./dir_file');
$dir_content = get_fname($dir);
function get_fname($dir) {
$dirhandle = opendir($dir);
if (!dirhandle) { exit; }
.........
}
The value of $dir is what it is in the text file. The code doesn't work. The function exits in the if statement.
I tried to replace the first line with
$dir = '/home/user/work'; //which is the path stored in the text file.
It works. So I suspect it's the problem of opendir. I can't figure out what causes this problem.
Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks.
Check if the file you're reading from has any line breaks, spaces, etc... after the actual path part. If you pass those in to opendir, it's going to look for a directory which has those literal characters in it, and most likely fail.
Adding a trim() call may help:
$dir = trim(file_get_contents('./dir_file'));
which will remove any such whitespace characters.
What is the best way to overwrite a specific line in a file? I basically want to search a file for the string '#parsethis' and overwrite the rest of that line with something else.
If the file is really big (log files or something like this) and you are willing to sacrifice speed for memory consumption you could open two files and essentially do the trick Jeremy Ruten proposed by using files instead of system memory.
$source='in.txt';
$target='out.txt';
// copy operation
$sh=fopen($source, 'r');
$th=fopen($target, 'w');
while (!feof($sh)) {
$line=fgets($sh);
if (strpos($line, '#parsethis')!==false) {
$line='new line to be inserted' . PHP_EOL;
}
fwrite($th, $line);
}
fclose($sh);
fclose($th);
// delete old source file
unlink($source);
// rename target file to source file
rename($target, $source);
If the file isn't too big, the best way would probably be to read the file into an array of lines with file(), search through the array of lines for your string and edit that line, then implode() the array back together and fwrite() it back to the file.
Your main problem is the fact that the new line may not be the same length as the old line. If you need to change the length of the line, there is no way out of rewriting at least all of the file after the changed line. The easiest way is to create a new, modified file and then move it over the original. This way there is a complete file available at all times for readers. Use locking to make sure that only one script is modifying the file at once, and since you are going to replace the file, do the locking on a different file. Check out flock().
If you are certain that the new line will be the same length as the old line, you can open the file in read/write mode (use r+ as the second argument to fopen()) and call ftell() to save the position the line starts at each time before you call fgets() to read a line. Once you find the line that you want to overwrite, you can use fseek() to go back to the beginning of the line and fwrite() the new data. One way to force the line to always be the same length is to space pad it out to the maximum possible length.
This is a solution that works for rewriting only one line of a file in place with sed from PHP. My file contains only style vars and is formatted:
$styleVarName: styleVarProperty;\n
For this I first add the ":" to the ends of myStyleVarName, and sed replaces the rest of that line with the new property and adds a semicolon.
Make sure characters are properly escaped in myStyleVarProp.
$command = "pathToShellScript folder1Name folder2Name myStyleVarName myStyleVarProp";
shell_exec($command);
/* shellScript */
#!/bin/bash
file=/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/$1/$2/scss/_variables.scss
str=$3"$4"
sed -i "s/^$3.*/$str;/" $file
or if your file isn't too big:
$sample = file_get_contents('sample');
$parsed =preg_replace('##parsethis.*#', 'REPLACE TO END OF LINE', $sample);
You'll have to choose delimiters '#' that aren't present in the file though.
If you want to completely replace the contents of one file with the contents of another file you can use this:
rename("./some_path/data.txt", "./some_path/data_backup.txt");
rename("./some_path/new_data.txt", "./some_path/data.txt");
So in the first line you backup the file and in the second line you replace the file with the contents of a new file.
As far as I can tell the rename returns a boolean. True if the rename is successful and false if it fails. One could, therefore, only run the second step if the first step is successful to prevent overwriting the file unless a backup has been made successfully. Check out:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php
Hope that is useful to someone.
Cheers
Adrian
I'd most likely do what Jeremy suggested, but just for an alternate way to do it here is another solution. This has not been tested or used and is for *nix systems.
$cmd = "grep '#parsethis' " . $filename;
$output = system($cmd, $result);
$lines = explode("\n", $result);
// Read the entire file as a string
// Do a str_repalce for each item in $lines with ""