fopen in php doesn't work

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Hello! When I try a simple fopen(“hello.txt”, “w”) it doesn’t do anything at all. I changed to full permissions 777 and changed around the owner to root and different ones and nothing. I added var_dump and echoed the fopen and it gives me False(bool). I checked the fopen configuration in the php.ini file and it is enabled. Any help??

Answer 1

AdrianStOnge April 5, 2018

What are you trying to do?

The “w” in fopen(“hello.txt”,“w”) means to write to a file, not read.
It would be best to read the PHP documentation on fopen().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

Lots of examples!
Hope that helps, let me know if I can help more.

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rauljr7 April 5, 2018

Yes I am trying to save a new file. It does let me read and edit files that are already created but not create a file
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rauljr7 April 5, 2018

The code was as simple as:

$handle = fopen(‘empty.txt’, 'w’);
fclose($handle);

And I logged in to another hosting provider siteground just to see if there was a difference and it worked fine there so I’m not sure if it’s some setup in my server or something.
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- AdrianStOnge April 6, 2018
  
  The above code would actually not produce any output.
  
  $handle = fopen('empty.txt','w');
  This line opens the file empty.txt for writing. So you’re telling PHP you want to write inforamtion to the file.
  
  fclose($handle); This line closes the file. You didn’t write or read anything from the file named empty.txt.
  
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rauljr7 April 5, 2018

Yes I am trying to save a new file. It does let me read and edit files that are already created but not create a file
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rauljr7 April 5, 2018

The code was as simple as:

$handle = fopen(‘empty.txt’, 'w’);
fclose($handle);

And I logged in to another hosting provider siteground just to see if there was a difference and it worked fine there so I’m not sure if it’s some setup in my server or something.
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- AdrianStOnge April 6, 2018
  
  The above code would actually not produce any output.
  
  $handle = fopen('empty.txt','w');
  This line opens the file empty.txt for writing. So you’re telling PHP you want to write inforamtion to the file.
  
  fclose($handle); This line closes the file. You didn’t write or read anything from the file named empty.txt.
  
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rauljr7 April 5, 2018

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