write a text file using PHP to a specific URL of the same server

Question

hello folks, I have a php script that writes a text file to the same directory where the script is.
Now the problem is, the script gets a URL from some other script. Now the new text file is supposed to be written to this provided location from the last step.
The provided location is in URL format: "www.example.com/main/foo/"

Is there a way to write a text file to this particular folder? I am writing from the same machine so I assume it shouldn't be really difficult? thanks for any help cheers Ali

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Answer 1

look into file_put_contents

<?php
$file = 'people.txt';
// The new person to add to the file
$person = "John Smith\n";
// Append the contents of $person to the file named by $file.
file_put_contents($file, $person, FILE_APPEND);
?>

Answer 2

You're probably better off writeing using an absolute disk reference rather than a URL. Get the directory path from the URL, identify the absolute path to the web root, and use that to give yourself the full file path.