I have a php script that needs to write variables to another file, is currently use:

PHP Code:

$File = "installconfig.php"; 
$Handle = fopen($File, 'w');
$Data = '$dbloc\n'; 
fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
$Data = '$dbname\n'; 
fwrite($Handle, $Data);
$Data = '$dbuser\n'; 
fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
$Data = '$dbpass\n'; 
fwrite($Handle, $Data);
$Data = '$dbprefix\n'; 
fwrite($Handle, $Data);
print "Executed MySQL Commands<br />"; 
fclose($Handle); 


but all that comes out in the file is:

$dbloc\n$dbname\n$dbuser\n$dbpass\n$dbprefix\n

Variable names and special characters (e.g., \n, \r, \t, etc.) are not parsed when they are inside of single quotes.

If you change them to double quotes, it should work properly.

ok thanks, now how would i do something like writing this into the file:

$dbloc=[$dbloc from file writing the file]

So basically i want it to write something in plain text, then actually add in a variable on the same line.

thanks

get contents from file ...
do a position search for the variable .... split the text in that position.
rewrite the text to file like $part1.$insert_text.$part2

So what I understand is you want to write out something like:
$dbloc = dbloc
What you would do is:

PHP Code:

$Data = '$dbloc = '."$dbloc\n"; 


If you write something within single quotes ' it comes out literally as you write it, useful for outputting variable names, if you put it between double quotes " it will process it though.

i would of just broke it up, but thats how i would do it,

like

PHP Code:

$data = '$dbloc = ';
$data1 = "$dbloc";
$data2 = ";\n";
$Data = $data.$data1.$data2; 


amw_drizz from now on when you want to break things up just remember this saying; The goal of a programmer's work is to reduce redundancy in their code. Bit annoying to say but it gets the point across. If you get too lazy to remember that just reduce it to say 'reduce redundancy'. It still gets the point across. That's why you use for($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++) instead of $i = 1 which would then be <= $num.

the only reason why i did it that way was to get the damned installer to work, since it is working i have no reason to mess with it, and i understand what you are saying. i dislike writting long lines of code but when it dont work with the "shorter" version i had to fall back to method that i knew worked, so i ended up do it the hard way.