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Old April 8th, 2003, 04:17 PM
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fopen, fread, fwrite question
I have 5 files in different directorys. I need to open each of these files and concantonate them into 1 file. the files are comma seperated line by line.

I have a grasp on how to open and read the files, but I am kinda lost on saving the group into 1 file.

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Old April 8th, 2003, 06:09 PM
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Well, if you are reading the files correctly - you would have each file conetents bound to a scalar. With the scalars, you can write the file as so ->
PHP Code:
 $fp = @fopen( 'filename.txt', 'w' ) or exit( 'Need to check directory permissions' );
if ( $fp )
{
      @fwrite( $fp, $var_one . "\n" . $var_two . "\n" . $var_etc ); 
}
@flose( $fp ); 
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ok I see,....thanks jpenn
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is there a way using fread that I can skip over the very first line in each file?
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Well, you can use just file and skip the other filesystem functions. Not nearly as fast as the other filesystem functions, but will do what you need ->
PHP Code:
 $data = file( 'the_text_file.txt' );
$data[0] = ( bool )false;
$data_scalar = implode( '', $data ); 

$data_scalar will hold your data with the first line being removed.
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I am having problems opening the files for reading,.....how would I go about conenction via FTP and retrieving the files that way?
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I am having problems opening the files for reading,.....how would I go about conenction via FTP and retrieving the files that way?

Where are the files stored? Are they on your site or another site?
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they are on my site,.....they are exports from a shopping cart. I would assume since the files are owned by the same user, that I would be able to open them. I can open them and download them fine via FTP.
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Are you using absolute paths? Example:
PHP Code:
/**************************
This
**************************/
$fp = fopen( 'site.com/files/file.txt', 'r' );
/**************************
Would Be
**************************/
$fp = fopen( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/files/file.txt', 'r' ); 


Are you getting any errors? Remove the error supression (@) from your functions so the errors will show...
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won't work,...casue the export dir is not in the doc root,...

it would be more like,...

cwd = public_html

dir = ../secure_dir/exports

I think the reason I can't open the public_html dir is not the same owner as the export dir owner.
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won't work,...casue the export dir is not in the doc root,...

Permissions - is this your server or is it a shared host?
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Change the dir permissions so php can access the files. Also, waht errors are being returned?
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