Hi Erwin OK, my first problem:
your code genrates errors, it says fwrite and fclose are invalid file descriptors. I gathered thatit is possibly because thos are for "normal" files, so I looked in the manual and found the FTP-functions, but it takes a $local_file variable, and that must be the name of the local file on disk, so I cannot simply put $content in there... Any ideas on how to directly stream the variable to the ftp site? Thanks On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 17:09, Erwin wrote: > > I am pretty up to standard with getting stuff into and out of mysql, > > so I am basically just in need of pointers with generating the text > > file and ftp'ing automatically. > > It would be an even greater plus if it wasn't actually necessary to > > create a physical text file on the hard drive, but to simply ftp the > > "memory" file via the ftp functions, but I don't think that is > > possible? > > In fact, it is...just open the file on the ftp directly > > <? > $fp = fopen( 'ftp://ftp.domain.com/file.txt', 'w' ); > ?> > > You can then write directly to that filepointer: > > <? > fwrite( $fp, 'some text' ); > ?> > > Don't forget to close the file (I think PHP does that anyway, but it's nicer > if you do that) > > <? > fclose( $fp ); > ?> > > > > > My routine will already have connections to the db, and the query will > > have already been run > > (something like select number from table where group=1) > > and I would then have a while to step through the result set. > > This is where I need help, how to "create" the file and add the > > numbers and "static" text to the file, and once completed with the > > loop, to ftp to a server with username and password. > > You'll have to loop trough the resultset > > <? > $query = 'select number from table where group=1'; > $result = mysql_query( $query ); > > $content = ''; > while ( $res = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) // This piece of code will > add all the Cellphone-numbers to the $content variable > { > $content .= 'Cellphone: ' . $res['number'] . "\n"; > } > $content .= 'Reference: ' . $reference . "\n"; > $content .= 'Notify: ' . $notify . "\n"; > > // And add everything else to the $content variable which needs to be > written > > $fp = fopen('ftp://ftp.domain.com', 'w' ); > fwrite( $fp, $content ); > fclose( $fp ); > ?> > > HTH > Erwin > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
