PHP creating random, weird files (not supposed to)

[emailsp3]

Hi everyone

For some reason, on x10 servers, my PHP files create weird random files in the home directory. Say the PHP script is called a.php, then i would have lots of a.php.1,a.php.2,a.php.3 and so on in the home directory (not public_html).

I have never had this on other servers, could someone please explain how to fix?

It is definately not my PHP code as that is not meant to create any files whatsoever.

Cheers!

 

[lylex10h]

Can you provide some additional information to duplicate this such as:
1. What server are you on? (ex. xo#.x10hosting.com)
2. What PHP version are you using?
3. Complete code from a file that this is happening on

I'm on xo7.x10hosting.com with PHP 7.0 and don't have a bunch index.php.1 index.php.2 index.php.3 WordPress files.

 

[emailsp3]

Hi

Thanks.

x03
5.5

<?php
$html = file_get_contents('https://public-api.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar/AircraftList.json?fRegQN=');

$response_2 = strstr($html, 'acList');
$response_2 = str_replace('acList":',"",$response_2);
$response_2 = str_replace('acList":',"",$response_2);
$response_2 = str_replace('"',"",$response_2);
$response_2 = str_replace('},{Id'," <p><p> ",$response_2);
echo $response_2;

?>


See attatched screenshot

Unless you see any issue maybe I should try to upgrade php and see if it is fixed?

Cheers

 

[emailsp3]

I tried removing write privileges to my php files, did not fix issue.
I tried upgrading to 7.1 but that has not solved issue either.

 

[lylex10h]

I'm not a programmer but my guess would be something to do with https://public-api.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar/AircraftList.json?fRegQN= since that page never stops loading.

 

[emailsp3]

Hi

No sorry it isn't. I found the issue though. My cron job was at fault for creating the files but not deleting them. I have added
--delete-after to the command and now no excess files are produced.

Thank your for your quick responses