fwrite() alternative

Hello,

My host does not allow fopen,fwrite... functions, so what's the best alternative way to write to text files with PHP? Can I use cURL to write to files?

 

cURL can write to files, but it needs fopen() as well. (example) But you cannot write normal content from a variable or string.

 

So, if fopen() is not supported then there's no way ever I can write to a .txt file in PHP?

 

$url = file('www.xxxxxxxxx.com')



create

.htaccess



php_value allow_url_fopen On

 

But my host runs PHP as CGI and I don't think that will work.

 

Trying to activate this function through. Htaccess if not functioning tries

 

OK, I've tried the following but it's not working. Could someone please tell me how to get it working. I want cURL to read text from a variable and then store it into a .txt file. Here's my failed try (It says can't resolve host, but I want it to read from a string not a URL):

	
	$string = "Append this text to the file named target_file.txt\r\n";

	$opts = array( 'http' => array('method'=>'GET','header'=>'status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n','content' => $string) );

	$context_resource = stream_context_create($opts); // Try to simulate a server response

	$curl = curl_init();
	
	$fp = fopen("target_file.txt", 'a'); // This is the file to which I want to append the text in $string

	curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $context_resource);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); //Store output in $fp
	curl_exec ($curl);
	if (curl_errno($curl))
	{
		echo curl_error($curl);
	}
	curl_close ($curl);

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