File Open and Writes..

Hi, I have a little function in my script that used to work until a little while back and for some reason it has decided to act up.. It is a basic function that reads a number from a file and then processes it, but increments it by 1, writes it back to the file and closes it.. now it used to work ok, but somehow, suddenly.. The function looks something along the lines of.. $filename ='/path/to/my/file/filet'; $fd = fopen( $filename,"r"); $prev_ord_id = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename)); $order_id = $prev_ord_id+1; fclose( $fd ); $ord_id = "BW" . $order_id; $fp = fopen( $filename,"w+"); fwrite( $fp, $order_id, 26); fclose( $fp ); The version of PHP on the server is:- 4.0.4pl1 and it sits on a RedHat Linux 7.1 server.. I know there were some questions about file related functions in one of the versions of PHP but since this was working fine until now, I dont know..? -- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato Ashwin Kutty Systems Administrator Dalhousie University Libraries (902) 494-2694