<?php
$handle = fopen("https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user&access_token=2227470867|2.mLWDqcUsekDYZ_FQQXYnHw__.3600.1279803600-100001317997096|YxS1eGhjx2rpNYLNE9wLrfb5hMc.", "r");
echo $handle;
?>
Why does it echo Resource id #4 instead of the page itself?
Because fopen() returns a resource pointer to the file, not the content of the file. It simply opens it for subsequent reading and/or writing, dependent on the mode in which you opened the file.
You need to fread() the data from the resource referenced in $handle.
This is all basic stuff that you could have read for yourself on the manual pages of php.net
Once you have created your $handle you now need to fread() the contents.
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle))
{
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
echo $contents;
source: php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
Use
<?php
$data = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user&access_token=2227470867|2.mLWDqcUsekDYZ_FQQXYnHw__.3600.1279803600-100001317997096|YxS1eGhjx2rpNYLNE9wLrfb5hMc.", "r");
echo $data;
?>
Because fopen return the resource handle of the file it opened not the contents.
Related
When I open file :
$d = fgets(fopen("file.txt", "r"));
and I don't created file pointer, need I using fclose() ?
This looks like PHP. Yes you must use fclose() which is why you also must use a variable to hold the file handle.
$handle = fopen("file.txt", "r")
$data = fgets($handle);
fclose($handle);
I need to generate a CSV file from a MySQL query and save the file to an SFTP server. I have tried the code below. The CSV file gets created, but it is empty. I also receive an error message in the browser that says Warning: is_file() expects parameter 1 to be a valid path, resource given in regard to this line $sftp->put($fileName, $fp, NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);. If I move fclose($fp); to the last line, I don't get the error but data still doesn't appear in the file. Could someone please let me know how to get the data to save in the file that was created?
$fileName = 'dataFiles/reports/Report Summary/Report Summary.csv';
$sql = mysqli_query($db, "
SELECT *
FROM reports
WHERE reportID = 1
");
$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');
$first = true;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($sql)){
if ($first) {
fputcsv($fp, array_keys($row));
$first = false;
}
fputcsv($fp, $row);
}
fclose($fp);
$sftp->put($fileName, $fp, NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);
Try something like this:
<?php
$fp = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');
// do stuff
rewind($fp);
$sftp->put($filename, $fp);
phpseclib (assuming you're using a new enough version) will detect that the second parameter is a stream resource and will try to read from it accordingly.
The second argument is not a handle but the content directly.
I think you could do: stream_get_contents($fp); in the second argument.
$content = stream_get_contents($fp);
fclose($fp);
$sftp->put($fileName, $content, NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);
As I start the process of writing my site in PHP and MySQL, one of the first PHP scripts I've written is a script to initialize my database. Drop/create the database. Drop/create each of the tables. Then load the tables from literals in the script.
That's all working fine! Whoohoo :-)
But I would prefer to read the data from files rather than hard-code them in the PHP script.
I have a couple of books on PHP, but they're all oriented toward web development using MySQL. I can't find anything about reading and writing to ordinary files.
Yes, I know there's a gazillion questions here on stackoverflow about reading TXT files, but when I look at each one, they're for C or C# or VB or Perl. I'm beginning to think that PHP just can't read files :-(
All I need is a brief PHP example of how to open a TXT file on the server, read it sequentially, display the data on the screen, and close the file, as in this pseudo-code:
program readfile;
handle = open('myfile.txt');
data = read (handle);
while (not eof (handle)) begin
display data;
data = read (handle);
end;
close (handle);
end;
I will also need to write files on the server when I get to the part of my site where people upload avatars, and save them as JPG or GIF files. But that's for later.
Thanks!
From the PHP manual for fread():
<?php
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
?>
EDIT
per the comment, you can read a file line by line with fgets()
<?php
$handle = #fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
echo $buffer;
}
if (!feof($handle)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>
All I need is a brief PHP example of how to open a TXT file on the server, read it sequentially, display the data on the screen, and close the file, as in this pseudo-code:
echo file_get_contents('/path/to/file.txt');
Yes that brief, see file_get_contents, you normally don't need a loop:
$file = new SPLFileObject('/path/to/file.txt');
foreach($file as $line) {
echo $line;
}
Well, since you're asking about resources on the subject, there's a whole book on it in the PHP.net docs.
A basic example:
<?php
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
?>
Why you not read php documentation about fopen
$file = fopen("source/file.txt","r");
if(!file)
{
echo("ERROR:cant open file");
}
else
{
$buff = fread ($file,filesize("source/file.txt"));
print $buff;
}
file_get_contents does all that for you and returns the text file in a string :)
You want to read line by line? Use fgets.
$handle = #fopen("myfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($content = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
//echo $content;
}
if (!feof($handle)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
fclose($handle);
}
Provided the following example code:
<?php
$handle = fopen("/tmp/test_file/sometestfile", "r");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents = fread($handle, 10);
print $contents;
sleep(1);
}
fclose($handle);
?>
If sometestfile, which is a txt file in my case, changes during the read loop, why is the php program continuing to read from the old file?
Say it is full of 1's and I cat sometestfile_new over it which is full of 2's.
I am running this on Linux, is this inode related?
If rewind() is added after each loop, the new file will be read instead, after the overwrite point in time.
from php.net
resource fopen ( string $filename , string $mode [, bool $use_include_path = false [, resource $context ]] )
fopen() binds a named resource, specified by filename, to a stream.
the fopen() as soon as it's called it "caches" the file and will output in the method you mention, example is your $contents = fread($handle, 10);
You can delete the file and it will still read that resource until it finishes the file !feof($handle)
You cannot do anything else with fopen(), you just can't reread the source and continue to print it.
I have this script on one free PHP-supporting server:
<html>
<body>
<?php
$file = fopen("lidn.txt","a");
fclose($file);
?>
</body>
</html>
It creates the file lidn.txt, but it's empty.
How can I create a file and write something into it,
for example the line "Cats chase mice"?
You can use a higher-level function like:
file_put_contents($filename, $content);
which is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite(), and fclose() successively to write data to a file.
Docs: file_put_contents
Consider fwrite():
<?php
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase mice');
fclose($fp);
?>
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase');
fwrite($fp, 'mice');
fclose($fp);
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
$text = "Cats chase mice";
$filename = "somefile.txt";
$fh = fopen($filename, "a");
fwrite($fh, $text);
fclose($fh);
You use fwrite()
It is easy to write file :
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase mice');
fclose($fp);
Here are the steps:
Open the file
Write to the file
Close the file
$select = "data what we trying to store in a file";
$file = fopen("/var/www/htdocs/folder/test.txt", "w");
fwrite($file, $select->__toString());
fclose($file);
I use the following code to write files on my web directory.
write_file.html
<form action="file.php"method="post">
<textarea name="code">Code goes here</textarea>
<input type="submit"value="submit">
</form>
write_file.php
<?php
// strip slashes before putting the form data into target file
$cd = stripslashes($_POST['code']);
// Show the msg, if the code string is empty
if (empty($cd))
echo "Nothing to write";
// if the code string is not empty then open the target file and put form data in it
else
{
$file = fopen("demo.php", "w");
echo fwrite($file, $cd);
// show a success msg
echo "data successfully entered";
fclose($file);
}
?>
This is a working script. be sure to change the url in the form action and the target file in fopen() function if you want to use it on your site.
In order to write to a file in PHP you need to go through the following steps:
Open the file
Write to the file
Close the file
$select = "data what we trying to store in a file";
$file = fopen("/var/www/htdocs/folder/test.txt", "a");
fwrite($file , $select->__toString());
fclose($file );
fwrite() is a smidgen faster and file_put_contents() is just a wrapper around those three methods anyway, so you would lose the overhead.
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file_put_contents(file,data,mode,context):
The file_put_contents writes a string to a file.
This function follows these rules when accessing a file.If FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH is set, check the include path for a copy of filename
Create the file if it does not exist then Open the file and Lock the file if LOCK_EX is set and If FILE_APPEND is set, move to the end of the file. Otherwise, clear the file content
Write the data into the file and Close the file and release any locks.
This function returns the number of the character written into the file on success, or FALSE on failure.
fwrite(file,string,length):
The fwrite writes to an open file.The function will stop at the end of the file or when it reaches the specified length,
whichever comes first.This function returns the number of bytes written or FALSE on failure.