Creating a text file with PHP?

chmod, fopen, fwrite, php, text

Solution

You're not going to be able to `chmod()` a file that doesn't exists. You must have write privileges on the parent folder in order to allow `Apache` (if your running Apache, otherwise whichever user your allowing to write the file) as a user to write inside of that folder (whether it is the root, or a sub folder).

Additionally, you should do some error handling on your file writing:

<?php
if($fh = fopen('text.txt','w')){
    $stringData = "Hello!";
    fwrite($fh, $stringData,1024);
    fclose($fh);
}

Hope this helps!

Problem

I'm trying to use PHP to create a text file, but I keep getting the "can't open file" error. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? ``` chmod('text.txt', 0777); $textFile = "text.txt"; $fileHandle = fopen($textFile, 'w') or die("can't open file"); $stringData = "Hello!"; fwrite($fileHandle, $stringData); fclose($fileHandle); ```

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