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# 1  
Old 10-08-2013
Passing information to a file on webpage
ok so I have a file on a website. this file is a plain text file

i need to be able to update the contents of this file from any internet enabled unix box.

does anyone have ideas on how it can be done, without using scp/ftp?

i know wget can be used to download the file:

Code:
wget http://www.website.com/file.txt

But what else can i do to actually update the file?

let's say i want to update the file with the word "Success:193434", the ideal solution would be as simple as this:

Code:
wget "Success:193434" http://www.website.com/file.txt

OS: Linux/SunOS/AIX
# 2  
Old 10-09-2013
If it's on a website, why not update it directly?

Code:
$ cat updatefile.php
<?php
  $file = fopen( "file", "a" );
  fwrite( $file, "Success:193434\n" );
  fclose( $file );
?>

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# 3  
Old 10-09-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
If it's on a website, why not update it directly?

Code:
$ cat updatefile.php
<?php
  $file = fopen( "file", "a" );
  fwrite( $file, "Success:193434\n" );
  fclose( $file );
?>

thank you.

how can i run this on any internet enabled host? so that it updates a file on the webpage? i would like for this to be done from the command line. possibly by passing the parameters to the script.
# 4  
Old 10-09-2013
The idea was that you add the file updatefile.php somewhere in your Webserver's document structure and call it using wget or curl.

For example:
Code:
$ curl http://webserver/updatefile.php
$ curl http://webserver/file
Success:193434
$ curl http://webserver/updatefile.php
$ curl http://webserver/file
Success:193434
Success:193434

You can modify the PHP to take parameters and update the file with those if you wished (so it doesn't have to be static updates).

i.e.
Code:
$ cat updatefile.php 
<?php
  $file = fopen( "file", "a" );
  fwrite( $file, $_GET['p1'] . " - " . $_GET['p2'] . "\n" );
  fclose( $file );
?>

Code:
$ curl http://webserver/updatefile.php"?p1=Hello&p2=World"
$ curl http://webserver/file                              
Success:193434
Success:193434
Hello - World

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