Re: Creating Files Windows vs Unix

On Thursday 15 March 2001 07:50, you wrote: > file. In qa.php3 I have the following line which seems to create a file > if it does not exist: > $answerFile = "$questionFileName-A.txt"; Then I go along and open this > later with $wa=fopen("$answerFile","a"); > In problem shooting I tried uploading a blank file with the name > $questionFileName-A.txt and it worked just fine after that, but that > will not work for my long term goals On my home computer with win98, Ok, Assuming that your school server is an *nix system I think I know the solution. Apparently fopen () works fine if you just append to an existing file, but fails if it has to create a new file. So - do you have write permissions for the directory you place the file in (creating a file means modifying (i.e. writing to) the directory) ? > To get around this, I supose I need a few lines of code that first test > if my file exist and then if it doesn't I will have to create it using > the touch command?? Any other ideas? If I'm right this won't work as well. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) Pretty cool, the kind of power information technology puts in our hands these days. - Securityfocus on probing 36000000 hosts for known problems in 3 weeks