Yes, I know my title is a bit confusing. Anyway, I have a PHP file, which I want to drop another PHP file, and the dropped PHP file would check if the creator exists, and if it doesn't it deletes files, how could I do this? I know how to drop a text file with some content in it, but not a much more complicated PHP file with multiple lines.
Is there anyway to do this?
Assuming that with "drop" you mean "create", this would work:
File parent.php:
<?php
// Child destination
$childFile = __DIR__ . '/child.php';
// Full path to this parent file
$file = __FILE__;
// Child contents
$contents = <<<EOT
<?php
if (!is_file('${file}')) {
// Parent doesn't exist; delete some files and exit
// unlink(...);
exit;
}
// Parent exists; keep doing something else
echo "I'm the child!";
EOT;
// Create child file
file_put_contents($childFile, $contents);
// Do something else...
echo "Created child";
The parent creates a child file, where the existance of the parent is checked; if it doesn't exist, the child will do something else and then exit.
