fopen() fread() etc

[Dave#]

Can anyone show me some example code to
[list=1][*]Open a php file on my server[*]Read the contents[*]open a second .txt file[*]write the contents of the first file to the second txt file[/list=1]

Many thanks

[Steviepowers]

do you mean write as in add to that file (eg. hit counter), or write as in just add to that file temporarily (eg. additional coding)

[menator]

<?
$filename = "test.txt";
print "writing to file<br>";
$fp = fopen($filename,"w") or die("Could'nt open $filename");
fwrite ($fp, "Hello\n");
fclose($fp);
print "Appending to $filename<br>";
$fp = fopen($filename,"a") or die("error");
fputs($fp,And another hello\n");
fclose($fp);
?>

to read a file use fread function

[Dave#]

Thanks menator but that isn't exactly what I wanted:

What I want to be able to do is this:

I have the latest topics from my forums on my homepage, this is called via ssi by a script called active.php

Now what I want to be able to do is execute via cron active.php every 15 minutes and write the output to a txt file after applying a few simple regex.

Thanks in advance

Dave

[Chen]

Are you using files for this with a reason?
Cuss it can be done pretty easily with just a few queries... I'm pretty sure.

[Dave#]

No reason for using files - that's just the way I would of done it with PERL I guess

[menator]

see if this gives the results your looking for

<?
$file="test.txt";
$fp = fopen($file,"r");
while(! feof($fp))
  {
   $chunk = fread($fp,16);
     print "$chunk";
     }
     $file1="this.txt";
   $fp = fopen($file1,"w");
   fwrite($fp,"$chunk\n");
fclose($fp);

?>

[Dave#]

Thanks - But that didn't work No output

Here is the code from the script that is running?

Is there an easy way to make the script write to a .txt file rather than PRINT?

<? 
require("/home/admin/www/forums/admin/config.php");
//
$num_active = 10; 
$num_chars = 75;

$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword); 
mysql_select_db($dbname); 

$querylatest="SELECT * FROM thread WHERE forumid='1' OR forumid='2' OR
forumid='3' OR forumid='4' OR forumid='5' OR forumid='6' OR forumid='7' OR
forumid='8' OR forumid='9' OR forumid='10' OR forumid='11' OR forumid='12'
OR forumid='13' OR forumid='14' OR forumid='15' OR forumid='16' OR
forumid='17' OR forumid='18' OR forumid='20' OR forumid='21' OR
forumid='22' OR forumid='23' OR forumid='24' OR forumid='25' ORDER BY lastpost
DESC LIMIT $num_active"; 

$resultlatest = mysql_query($querylatest,$db); 

while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) { 


// Get Forum Infomation 
$query_forum = "select * from forum where forumid='$latest_array[forumid]'"; 
$result_forum = mysql_query($query_forum,$db); 
$forum_info_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_forum); 

// split the date up a bit 
$datestr1 = substr($latest_array["dateline"],0,10); 
$datetime = substr($latest_array["dateline"],11,8); 

$querythread="SELECT * FROM post WHERE threadid='$latest_array[threadid]' ORDER BY dateline ASC LIMIT 1"; 

$result_thread_text= mysql_query($querythread,$db); 

$result_thread_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_thread_text); 

$newstitle = $latest_array["title"]; 
$newsposter = $latest_array["postusername"]; 
$newsposterid = $result_thread_array["userid"]; 
$newsdate = date("h:i A", $latest_array["lastpost"]); 
$newstext = substr(strip_tags($result_thread_array["pagetext"]),0,$num_chars);
$newsthreadid = $latest_array["threadid"]; 
$newscomments = $latest_array["replycount"]; 
$threadforumid = $latest_array["forumid"];
$threadforum = $forum_info_array["title"];
$threadiconid = $latest_array["iconid"];

$newstext = strip_tags($newstext,"");
//$newstext = wordwrap( $newstext, 20 );
$newstext = preg_replace("/[a-zA-Z0-9]{12,}/s", " ", $newstext); 
$newstext = ereg_replace("^http", "", $newstext);
$newstext = ereg_replace("http://", "", $newstext);
$newstext = preg_replace("/\[.*?\]/si","", $newstext);




if ($threadiconid==0) {
 $threadicon = "";
 }
else {
 $threadicon = "<img src=\"http://www.cpfc.org/images/posticon2.gif\" alt=\"Thread icon\"> ";
 }

if ($newscomments==1) {
 $commenttext = "reply »";
 }
else {
 $commenttext = "replies »";
 }


print("
    
<b><font color=\"#FF0000\"><font size=\"1\">»</font></font>
<font size=\"1\">
 <a href=\"http://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=$newsthreadid\">$newstitle<br>
 </a></font></b><font size=\"1\">$newstext<BR>$newscomments $commenttext <a href=\"http://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=$newsthreadid\">Read
more</a><BR><font size=\"1\" color=\"#C0C0C0\">Last Updated: $newsdate<br></font>
"); 
} 

?>

[Dave#]

I'm an idiot

I'm stupid

I can simply do this

/usr/local/php/bin/php /home/admin/www/forums/addons/active3.php > /home/admin/www/forums/addons/test.txt

DOH!!