How do I create file on server? - php

Question

Let say I want create file call style.css in /css/ folder.
Example : When I click Save button script will create style.css with content
body {background:#fff;}
a {color:#333; text-decoration:none; }
If server cannot write the file I want show error message Please chmod 777 to /css/ folder
Let me know

Answer 1

$data = "body {background:#fff;}
a {color:#333; text-decoration:none; }";
if (false === file_put_contents('/css/style.css', $data))
echo 'Please chmod 777 to /css/ folder';

Answer 2

You can use the is_writable function to check whether the file is writable or not.
For example:
<?php
$filename = '/path/to/css/style.css';
if (is_writable($filename)) {
echo 'The file is writable';
} else {
echo 'Please chmod 777 to /css/ folder';
}
?>

Answer 3

is the function you may want to use
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php to open the file
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php to write your css
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php to close the file
or use
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php just one command to master them all
if you fopen the file and the result of the operation is false then you can't write the file (maybe for permissions, maybe for UID mismatch in safe mode)
file_put_contents (php5 and upper) php calls fopen(), fwrite() and fclose() for you and return false if something id wrong (you should make yourself sure that false is really the boolean value though).

Answer 4

fopen with 'w' flag

Answer 5

<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$somecontent = "Add this to the file\n";
// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {
// In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
// The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence
// that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}
// Write $somecontent to our opened file.
if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}
echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)";
fclose($handle);
} else {
echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?>
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php | Example 1