Create a new page and add contents to it using PHP

This is going to be hard to explain so please ask me for clarification if anything confuses you.

So let’s say that I am on createpage.php. Within this page, I have the following tasks.

1. Create a new page (file) using PHP via $file = fopen($pagename . '.php', "x").

2. Add premade content to this new page.

The method that I am taking to add new content to the new page is by storing the HTML content code into one variable called $newpagecontent. Then, I simply use fwrite($file, $newpagecontent).

The problem is though, that you can’t store the whole of HTML/PHP file into $newpagecontent without breaking the double quotes. For example, $newpagecontent="echo("hello!")".

So the question is, is there a better way to add in HTML content to a newly created page? or is there a way to store the HTML code into a variable without breaking the syntax?

Thanks a lot

Answer

If you just want the contents of the other file that contains the HTML/PHP code, then try file_get_contents to read the contents and store it in the variable. Please see the documentation of this function for further details.