file_put_contents not creating txt file

Question

I currently have a php script that is running when a browser browser browses to the webpage. What I\'m trying to do is write a text file when the script runs that stores a v

Answer 1

Something else to try, for people with a similar question. You might just be making a simple mistake that doesn't require you to mess around with the file permissions—and if you're making this mistake, fixing the file permissions might not help.

Be sure you're using a local, relative file path in file_put_contents().

For example, use:

file_put_contents('short_local_path/my_working_file.txt', $myString);

Not:

file_put_contents('http://example.com/remote_path/my_working_file.txt', $myString);

And not:

file_put_contents('/whole/root/file/path/to/my_working_file.txt', $myString);