$content = "some text here";
$fp = fopen("myText.txt","w");
fwrite($fp,$content);
fclose($fp);
The above code creates a file in the folder where the PHP script is present. However when the script is called by Cpanel Cron then file is created in home directory.
I want file to be created in the same folder where the php script is present even if its run by cron.
How to do that ?
Try using __DIR__ . "/myText.txt" as filename.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php
Try something like this, using the dirname(__FILE__) built-in macro.
<?php
$content = "some text here";
$this_directory = dirname(__FILE__);
$fp = fopen($this_directory . "/myText.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $content);
fclose($fp);
?>
__FILE__ is the full path of the currently running PHP script. dirname() returns the containing directory of a given file. So if your script was located at /mysite.com/home/dir/prog.php, dirname(__FILE__) would return...
/mysite.com/home/dir
Thus, the appended "./myText.txt" in the fopen statement. I hope this helps.
__DIR__constant to access current script directory orbasename( __FILE__)if you are running old PHP interpreter