PHP code wont write to file

[JC5]

I have this code

<?php/** * BBoardX 1.0 BETA * Copyright © 2008 BBoardX, All Rights Reserved * * Website: http://www.bboardx.com * License: http://www.bboardx.com/license * */$myFile = "connect.php";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");$stringData = "<?php\n$db = mysql_connect({$_POST['req_db_host']},{$_POST['username']},{$_POST['password']}) or die('Could not connect');\n$admin_email={$_POST['admin_email']};\n$admin_password={$_POST['admin_password']};\nif(!$db)\n die('no db');\nif(!mysql_select_db({$_POST['database']},$db))\n die('No database selected.');\nif(get_magic_quotes_gpc())\n{\n$_GET = array_map('stripslashes', $_GET);\n$_POST = array_map('stripslashes', $_POST);\n$_COOKIE=array_map('stripslashes', $_COOKIE);\n}\n$_GET = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_GET);\n$_POST = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_POST);\n$_COOKIE = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_COOKIE);\n?>";fwrite($fh, $stringData);fclose($fh);Header ('Location runsql.php');?>

and not one forum has been able to answer me why the code does not write to the connect.php file. Cmon guys be the first to answer why it wont work

[Jesdisciple]

Do you know the answer? Are you just asking to see if we get it? (Just checking; I don't like pop quizzes.)What permissions does connect.php have?Add this to the top of the script and report any extra output:

ini_set('display_errors', 'On');error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

After testing with the above extra two lines, change the fwrite line to this and report any extra output:

fwrite($fh, $stringData) or die('The file could not be written.');

[jeffman]

Even if you figure out why your file isn't writing, you're not going to like the results. You're building your $stringData variable inside double quotes. That means expressions like $db are going to be interpolated, not copied. Or, in other words, where you expect to find $db in the file, you will find the interpolated value of $db, which is null, so you'll find nothing there. And that will be true of all expressions like that.Try putting an escape character before the $ for those expressions. I.E., instead of writing $db write \$db. The variables that SHOULD be interpolated, leave those alone.You also don't need all those newline characters. In PHP, when a quoted expression includes multiple lines, the newline characters are understood. This is not the case in, say, Perl.

[JC5]

Ha no this is not a quiz, this is an actual problem I haveI took your suggetsionsand now have this code, yet to be tested

<?php/** * BBoardX 1.0 BETA * Copyright © 2008 BBoardX, All Rights Reserved * * Website: http://www.bboardx.com * License: http://www.bboardx.com/license * */$myFile = "connect.php";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");$stringData = "<?php\n\$db = mysql_connect({\$_POST['req_db_host']},{\$_POST['username']},{\$_POST['password']}) or die('Could not connect');$admin_email={\$_POST['admin_email']};$admin_password={\$_POST['admin_password']};if(!$db) die('no db');if(!mysql_select_db({\$_POST['database']},\$db)) die('No database selected.');if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){$_GET = array_map('stripslashes', \$_GET);$_POST = array_map('stripslashes', \$_POST);$_COOKIE=array_map('stripslashes', \$_COOKIE);}\$_GET = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', \$_GET);\$_POST = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', \$_POST);\$_COOKIE = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', \$_COOKIE);?>";fwrite($fh, $stringData);fclose($fh);Header ('Location: runsql.php');?>

[JC5]

Nope that code doesn't work

[jeffman]

I never said adding the slash would make it work. Of course something else, like permissions, is getting in the way first.

[JC5]

I never said adding the slash would make it work. Of course something else, like permissions, is getting in the way first.

I have the file permissions at 0755. should they be different?

[JC5]

HAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH EZEZEZEZEZEZ FIGURED ITTTTTi had <form action="runsql.php" method="post>and in that file it didnt redirect to install.php where the fwrite function was in so it never got referencedand it works nowEZEZEZEEZEZEZEZEZ[/happyness]yay

[Jesdisciple]

Note to self: Always make sure the file is actually running first.

[JC5]

Note to self: Always make sure the file is actually running first.

bah shhhhhhhhhhhhh ;/