Printing PHP Script Output to File

Printing php script output to file

The easiest method would be to create a string of your HTML data and use the file_put_contents() function.

$htmlStr = '<div>Foobar</div>';
file_put_contents($fileName, $htmlStr);

To create this string, you'll want to capture all outputted data. For that you'll need to use the ob_start and ob_end_clean output control functions:

// Turn on output buffering
ob_start();
echo "<div>";
echo "Foobar";
echo "</div>";

//  Return the contents of the output buffer
$htmlStr = ob_get_contents();
// Clean (erase) the output buffer and turn off output buffering
ob_end_clean(); 
// Write final string to file
file_put_contents($fileName, $htmlStr);

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Reference -

• ob_start()
• ob_get_contents()
• ob_end_clean()

• file_put_contents()

• PHP output control documentation

How to redirect echo command output to a text file in PHP

Just use fopen/fwrite to write to a file (this will create the output.txt if it does not exist, else overwrites it)

$myfile = fopen("output.txt", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
fwrite($myfile, $TOKEN);
fclose($myfile);

Include a php file and write the output to a file?

Use output buffering to capture the data and file_put_contents() to save the captured output.

ob_start();
include 'content.php';
$content = ob_get_clean();
file_put_contents('file.txt', $content);

Store PHP Output To File?

You may want to redirect your output in crontab:

php /path/to/php/file.php >> log.txt

Or use PHP with, for example, file_put_contents():

file_put_contents('log.txt', 'some data', FILE_APPEND);

If you want to capture all PHP output, then use ob_ function, like:

ob_start();
/*
We're doing stuff..
stuff
...
and again
*/
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); //here, output is cleaned. You may want to flush it with ob_end_flush()
file_put_contents('log.txt', $content, FILE_APPEND);

Saving php output in a file

Try this out using the true param in the print_r:

$f = fopen("file.txt", "w");
fwrite($f, print_r($array2, true));
fwrite($f, print_r($array3, true));
fwrite($f, print_r($array4, true));
fclose($f); 

PHP Print to txt file and Redirect after form submit

You need a newline after data. Then use the PHP header() function to redirect.

You could use "\r\n" as the newline but I like PHP_EOL:

<?php           
if(isset($_POST['textdata']))
{
$data=$_POST['textdata'];
$fp = fopen('data.txt', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $data . PHP_EOL);
fclose($fp);
header("Location: http://www.yoursitehere.com");
}
?>

Printing / Echoing To Console from PHP Script

Thats the method of doing it.

Things to check for are output buffering
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-flush.php

Is that code actually being run ? Make sure it doesnt branch before it gets there

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