Store to file using PHP

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I have a text file in my system named "flow.txt". It is stores in my Documents folder. I want to write into this file using php. I have used following code to do this but no changes are observed in the file. It always show "Couldn't open $fp for writing!" .

 $fp = fopen('~/Documents/flow.txt', 'a') or die("Couldn't open $fp for writing!");
 fwrite($fp, print_r($arr, true));
 fclose($fp);

And also tried file_put_contents() function. But, it too didn't work. Can anyone help?

Then what it should be ? I also tried 'home/anurag/Documents/flow.txt' — as24, May 23 '16 at 10:40
Have you tried '/home/anurag/Documents/flow.txt' ' with the leading slash? — Sergey Nazarenko, May 23 '16 at 10:43
Possible duplicate of [How to write into a file in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1768894/how-to-write-into-a-file-in-php) — Aown Raza, May 23 '16 at 10:52
Maybe, you have no permissions to create the file or to write into the file. — Sergey Nazarenko, May 23 '16 at 11:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

I would suggest three points:

File path: Make sure the path is correct. Probably go to the folder Documents and command pwd to confirm it.
Permission: To avoid possibility of different web server's user/group, suggest testing with permission 777 to check it: chmod 777 flow.txt in folder Documents and chmod 777 Documents in home. If it is, change back the permissions and modify the web server's (httpd?) User/Group in the configuration file.
open_basedir: Check this setting referring to open_basedir - how to set for specific directory.

Hope it helps.

Store to file using PHP

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