Script to save a file on the server

Does anyone know a script that do this:

Reads from TXT file available online, and save it on a given dir with a given name.

Thanks

 

could you tell us a bit more
are you saying reads a web page or reads a file from a another hosted server

 

$text = file_get_contents("fileToRead.txt");

Are you using PHP5? Use file_put_contents to save $text. Otherwise look at us3.php.net/fwrite

 

ssanders, wouldn't that just get the stuff within the .txt file?
EDIT: Didn't see the second part, sorry

 

Hi Guys,

What I have right now is a page, that loads some data from MySQL database, and retrieves a TXT file using this code at the header:

header("Content-type: ASCII");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$date."_File.txt"); 

Code (markup):

This code makes the user able to download a file like this: 20070823_File.txt for example. But this is dynamic data that changes everyday. I could make a cron and start posting all this data into a mysql database by dates, and then create some similar scripts to download specific data from one given date... but I dont want to do that because it would be an extensive database, and I just want the users to be able to download the last 10 txt files from the previous 10 days.

--> So what I really need, is to make a php script, that is called by a cron everyday or something, and that saves the txt file into some folder on my server.

My problem is that I don't know how to create a script, that actually saves this txt file into a folder.

Any idea ?

thanks for any help !

 

Any idea ?

thanks for any help

 

Hi,

Try this script by setting a cron job

$contents = {data retrieved from mysql db}
$newfile = time().".txt";
$folder = "savedfiles";
$path = $folder."\$newfile";
$fp = fopen($path,"w");
fwrite($fp,$contents);

PHP: