PHP

HOW TO CREATE A FILE IN PHP

PHP has a host of file functions enabling you to do almost anything with files.

For example, you can create a file from scratch with the following code:

<?

$fh=fopen("myfile.txt", "w") or die("can't open file");

fclose($fh);

?>

PHP will then create this file myfile.txt in the same directory as this php script used to create the file. An explanation of the code as follows:

We assign the $fh variable to the result of the fopen function. The fopen function takes two parameters, the first is the name of the file and the second is the opening mode. The w tells php to open and therefore create the file in write mode. If the file cannot be created, an error message can't open file will be displayed.

$fh=fopen("myfile.txt", "w") or die("can't open file");

After the line above, the file myfile.txt is created. We then tell PHP to close the file as follows:

fclose($fh);