How do you write files to a server?

[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-02-11 21:42 ]

depends on the protocol you use - ftp? scp? i think http has some strange extensions to allow uploading, too...

http would probobly be it. What's scp?

secure file transfer over ssh

http is strange for uploading files, though...

write files on a server? upload or what? or just open them with a php file or something and then write to them? if you're talking about the 2nd, then you can do it exactly as you could do it in C.

read:
$fp = fopen($filename, "");
$contents = fread($fp, sizeoffile($filename));
fclose($fp);

write:
$fp = fopen($filename, "a/wr/t/b/+/");
fwrite($fp, $variable);
fclose($fp);

dunno if you wanted to do this :/
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i think he wants to upload files over http...

i found something about that.. don't know if that's what you want, tho:
http://www.apacheweek.com/features/put

it's about how to use PUT for upploading files with apache...

That method needs a webserver that supports it.

[ This Message was edited by: fsvara on 2002-02-12 14:25 ]

Let me elaborate. I want to make a hit counter. To do this i will need to alter a file on the server.

KaGez: I don't know PHP. If you could explain that tecnique I think that may be what I want. [addsig]

I think I found what I was looking for. Thanks for the support thoough. For anyone who is interested heres the link
http://www.asplists.com/learn/test/txtwritedisplay.asp

Thanks again. [addsig]

ASP .

Peter: Hey you take what you can get. Any other suggestions? Besides ASP is based on VB which I understand. It's like a second language to me. If you could explain the PHP process that wuld be great.



[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-02-12 18:44 ]

Just found out that GeoCities doesn't support ASP but it does support PHP 2,3, and 4. HEEELLLPPPP!!!! [addsig]

Try brinkster - I'm pretty sure they allow asp... Failing that, I believe 34sp does...

Brinkster was OK but didn't allow writing to the server. If someone could explain the PHP method my problems would be over.

what kagez posted was php code...

Fsvara: I know that, but how do I implement this into the HTML file?

you don't implement it in a html file, you implement it in a php file

well, if your webhost supports php, just create a .php file, put your html code inside and then use ?--> - the mean beginning and end of php code.
To output something from php to the html so that it'll show up in the browser, just use echo - "echo $contents;" in that case...

bullshit, you can implent that into a HTML file too. At leats it works on my apache:


...blahblahblah....
(some HTML stuff)

. In there you can use
* code like you would use in C/C++, only that
* you have the put a "$" in front of all var names.
* The rest is almost the same as in C.
* now we end the PHP part */
?-->

...blahblahblah....


It works like this on my apache, even if I call the file .html, dunno why. But you can also call a *.html *.php, since php only executes the part between . And, as said above, if you know C you shouldn't have any probs with PHP
you can check the function reference on http://www.php.net .... it saved me lots of hours
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I understand what you want, to achieve File I/O, you can use the Perl programming language, here are two examples:

(This will create a file)
#!/usr/bin/perl

open FILE, "-->filename-goes-here" or die "Error!\n";
print FILE "whatever-you-want\n";
print FILE "blah-blah-blah\n";
close FILE;

The above Perl code will make a file(in the directory which the script is in) called "filename-goes-here",
inside the file, it will say:
whatever-you-want
blah-blah-blah

(This is to load a file)
#!/usr/bin/perl

open FILE, "filename-to-open" or die "Error!\n";
while () {
print $_, "\n";
}

The above Perl code will load(open) a file named: "filename-to-open",
then it will show everything in the file.

If you need more help, e-mail me: comwizz@eircom.net

ComWizz:
You did exactly the same thing as I did, only in Perl, and dxprog wanted to have it in PHP afaik ...
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