The first ever Jethro php question

[Jethro]

Ok have a text file "counter.txt" installed in the same directory as my .php script

Here's the code that is being lame

$datafile = "/count.txt";
$imgset = 3;
$counter_digits = 6;

$file = fopen($datafile, "r");

It's erroring out on the fopen statement saying it can't locate the file ...... have also tried $datafile = "count.txt"

Thanks in advance ....

[Sastraxi]

I responded at NX, but I'll respond here as well (different post though..)

....been having a problem since yesterday while trying to code a shoutbox. It was that i didnt know how to open a .txt, where all the entries would be stored, from different locations on the server (i.e. from root or from archive dir, etc).
well, tried referring to the file to open on fopen using a http url, obviously doesnt work for a or w modes.
So i, desperatley, tried referring to it using something like /usr/name/www/shout.txt, and to my surprise it worked, so i can call the .txt from anywhere on the site.
heres part of the code:

(note the {$HTTP_HOST}{$REQUEST_URI} on the form action so the post gets sent to the right place)

<?
$aqui = "http://{$HTTP_HOST}{$REQUEST_URI}";

?>

<form action="<?print("$aqui");?>" method="post">

<input class="inputbox2" type="text" name="sh" value="valor" size="20" maxlength="40">
<input style="color: black; width: 10px; height: 17px;background-color: #aaaaaa; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10px;margin-top: 2px;width: 120px" type="submit" name="btrb" value="Adicionar">
</form>

<?

$d = date("H:i-j/m/y");
$fp = fopen ("/usr/home/pagon/www/shout.txt", "a");
if (!($fp))
{
print ("ERROR file not open!");
exit;
}

fputs($fp,"\n");
fputs ($fp,"$d|$sh");
fclose ($fp);

}
?>

just a bit of the code of my shoutbox, but you get the idea, it saved me quite a lot of work and i didnt find this documented anywhere, i thought i only had two choices: referer the file while on the same dir or use http, glad this works. :-)

[phpman]

jethro, it's about time you come to the php side

take the / off the file

$datafile = "count.txt";
$imgset = 3;
$counter_digits = 6;

$file = fopen($datafile, "r");



if it is in the same directory you don't need it. fopen is very picky and if you use a path of any kind it is best to have it in a variable instead of in the fopen statement.

[Jethro]

Weird one ... wanted the full path not a relative one Chris fixed it up for me ... what a dude... next question coming up soon.