Writing a file?

[mike314]

I'm stuck. I have this php code that basically loops through a file and puts it all in a variable. But is there a way to save that variables info to a new file or in an existing one???


<?php

$lines = file('storage.xml');
$vars = "";

foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
$vars .= htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}

echo $vars;
?>

is there a way to put the contents of $vars in to a blank file (basically creating a new one) or an existing xml file???

thanks, your help is much appreciated

[..:RUDI:..]

$newfile = "newfile.txt"; // The file name.
$filehand = fopen($newfile,"a"); // Open the file with Writing Ability. (Will create the file if doesn't exist)
fwrite($filehand, $vars); // Write $vars to the file.
fclose($filehand); // Close the file. 

Rudi

[penagate]

file_put_contents() does all the above at once.

[..:RUDI:..]

file_put_contents() does all the above at once.

Damn you penagay!

[visualAd]

In PHP 5:

file_put_contents('new_file', file_get_contents('old_file')); 

In PHP 4:

$hwnd = fopen('new_file', 'wb');
$data = file_get_contents('old_file');

fwrite($hwnd, $data);
fclose($hwnd); 

Obviously, where necessary, you would check for errors in the above operations.