Why do you use tmpfile and not tempnam, as you write it in the header of
your message ? it returns the name of the file, as you expect...
string tempnam ( string dir, string prefix)
Then, you'll just need to open the file returned by tempnam and write all
data inside...
regards
Eric
"Rus Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message de news:
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> Hi All,
> I'm fairly new to this list/PHP and I've already hit a bit of a brick
> wall. I'm trying to write some data out to a temporary file then make a
> passthru call so that another program can take the file as input on the
> command line
>
> I first tried
>
> print "<p>Do stuff</p>";
> $temp = tmpfile();
> fwrite($temp, $text);
> passthru("/path/to/program $temp");
> fclose($temp); // this removes the file
>
> However I realised that $temp was a file handle rather than a filename. Is
> there anyway I can get the filename? A google and search on php.net
> doesn't show anything obvious
>
> Rgds
>
> Rus
>
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