Stack Overflow Asked on January 13, 2021
I have two scripts: one of them writes the value of a variable to a file. In another script, I try to read it. It is written without problems, but it is not readable.
Here I write to a file:
$peer_id=2000000001;
$fileLocation = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT") . "/peer_id.txt";
$file = fopen($fileLocation,"a+");
fwrite($file, $peer_id);
fclose($file);
Here I read the file:
$fileLocation = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT") . "/peer_id.txt";
$file = fopen($fileLocation,"r");
if(file_exists($fileLocation)){
// Result is TRUE
}
if(is_readable ($file)){
// Result is FALSE
}
// an empty variables, because the file is not readable
$peer_id = fread($file);
$peer_id = fileread($file);
$peer_id = file_get_contents($file);
fclose($file);
The code runs on "sprinthost" hosting, if that makes a difference. There are suspicions that this is because of that hosting.
file_get_contents
in short runs the fopen
, fread
, and fclose
. You don't use a pointer with it. You should just use:
$peer_id = file_get_contents($fileLocation);
That is the same for is_readable
:
if(is_readable($fileLocation)){
// Result is FALSE
}
So full code should be something like:
$fileLocation = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT") . "/peer_id.txt";
if(file_exists($fileLocation) && is_readable($fileLocation)) {
$peer_id = file_get_contents($fileLocation);
} else {
echo 'Error message about file being inaccessible here';
}
The file_get_contents
has an inverse function for writing; https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php. Use that with the append
constant and you should have the same functionality your first code block had:
file_put_contents($fileLocation, $peer_id, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
Correct answer by user3783243 on January 13, 2021
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