Cannot run the code after I activate the plugin

Question

I wrote a plugin to write code into the wp-config.php – it should download a code file and add it to my wp-content. But I only can run the function manually. I want the plugin to run the function when I activate it.

Here is my code:

    function test_write() {
    $file = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0Bze2eOzHVUHcWXVrSmRyUUNkWGM';
    $newfile = '../../advanced-cache.php';
    copy($file,$newfile);
    $file = "../../../wp-config.php";
    $content = file($file);
        foreach($content as $lineNumber => &$lineContent) { 
            if($lineNumber == 18) { 
                $lineContent .= "define('WP_CACHE', true);" . PHP_EOL;
        }
    }
    $allContent = implode("", $content);
    file_put_contents($file, $allContent);
}
function test_activate() {
    test_write();
}
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'test_activate');

Answer 1

you can not, and should not be able to write to files directly. You need to use the wordpress filesystem api https://codex.wordpress.org/Filesystem_API which either requires a pre configuration on the site or user manual control.

In addition it is just wrong to automatically write anything into wp-config.php as any mistake will bring down the site with no way to recover except for recovering from backup which is rarely an easy process.