I am stuck and in need of a hand. Hope someone can help?
Anyone have any idea why I am getting "failed write" in this code?
$write_file = "/usr/home/public_html/php/users_v2.sql";
$write_handle = fopen($write_file, "w") || die("Couln't open users_v2!");
if (is_writeable($write_file)) {
if ($write_handle === FALSE) echo 'Failed handle?!';
if (fwrite($write_handle, "Hi\n") === FALSE) echo "Failed write!\n";
}
fclose($write_handle);
Thanks in advance.
By using the OR operator when creating your file handle, you are returning a boolean value depending on the operation. So $write_handle will contain true or false, instead of the file resource. A better way to open a file for writing and test that it was successful would be this:
$write_handle = fopen($write_file, 'w');
if ($write_handle === false)
{
die('Could not open file ' . $write_file);
}
Additionally, you could use the file_put_contents() function which handles the fopen(), fwrite() and fclose() for you. I only recommend this if you are executing only one write to the same file, as it will be a lot of overhead, and unless you pass the FILE_APPEND flag, it will empty the file for every write.
I have seen it used everywhere but the problem is the || die("Couln't open users_v2!");
First I added:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
to see what php is reporting for errors.
$write_handle = fopen($write_file, "w") || die("Couln't open users_v2!");
fclose($write_handle);
Returns an invalid stream handle error and file handle of 1. Without it the returned file handle is "Resource id #x".
Changing the line to:
$write_handle = fopen($write_file, "w"); // || die("Couln't open users_v2!");
and your code works fine. Gonna go post this on php.net now.
