silly little php problem...

[ibanez270dx]

... that is turning out to be a brain teaser for me. I'm using the fopen command to create a new file and write some stuff in it, which is held in a variable. However, its returning a puzzling result.

Here is the code:

$contents = "http://www.loaded-designs.com/wuc/upload/$filename";
	$file = "upload/$nameofm3u.m3u"; 
     	$open = fopen($file, "w+"); 
     	fwrite($open, $contents); 
     	fclose($open);

then when I open up the new .m3u file, it reads as follows:

http://www.loaded-designs.com/wuc/upload/Array[name]

Any ideas why this would happen? It seems like it isn't processing the contents of the variable until after it inserts it into the .m3u. Thats just my thought, but any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Also another quick little question... I need to get rid of all blank spaces in a string... for example, lets say:

$variable = "$bandname $songtitle";

// $bandname = "Lamb of God";
// $songtitle = "New American Gospel";

is there a string fuction or any method to get rid of the spaces?

Thanks,
- Jeff Miller
www.loaded-designs.com

[sneeuwbal]

for the second problemyou might try to work with ereg_replace
not sure if it's going to work, but it's worth a try

http://be.php.net/manual/nl/function.ereg-replace.php

for the first problem you'll probably have to work with a small loop
don't think you can put an array in there all at once

[sancho]

Hi

I have a question about the first problem. Are you using an array of filenames in the content variable? If so the code below will fix your problem.

PHP Code:

foreach($filename as $f)
{
    $contents = "http://www.loaded-designs.com/wuc/upload/$f";
    $file = "upload/$nameofm3u.m3u"; 
    $open = fopen($file, "a+"); 
    fwrite($open, $contents); 
    fclose($open); 
} 


As for removing spaces the easiest way is to use str_replace. So the code would look something like:

PHP Code:

$bandname = str_replace(" ","WHAT YOU WNAT TO REPLACE SPACES WITH", "Lamb of God");
$songtitle = str_replace(" ","WHAT YOU WNAT TO REPLACE SPACES WITH", "New American Gospel");

$variable = "$bandname $songtitle"; 


[ibanez270dx]

thanks guys, I figured it all out now!

That first problem was odd - it ended up being the way I defined the variable. I had:

$filename = "$_FILES[file][name]";

which didn't work and only defined $variable as array[name]. The correct thing was:

$filename = $_FILES[file][name];

Sometimes the smallest things are the biggest problems... Once again thanks for your help!