Re: No Sense: [PHP] Update: [PHP] Weird?

In article <3C9409E5.C26BF7B6@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca>, taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca says... > No!? $date is a string?! > > $date = date ("MD"); > > How does that make a difference? > > $to_path = "c:\\ccl_www\\".$date."\\ccl_www\\"; > > You want me to change it to: > > $to_path = "c:\\ccl_www\\$date\\ccl_www\\"; > > Does anyone follow why? > > >Scott Furt wrote: > > > I meant, have you created a physical directory > > named $date? > > That's your problem. There's no directory named $date on your computer, and > > you're > > trying to write files into a non-existent directory. > > > > jtjohnston wrote: > > > I have created date :) > > > $date = date ("MD"); > > > That's not it. It seems to fail at one level or another, I think, becuase the > > > function calls itself - and probably gets lost somehow. > > > John > > > > > > > > >>... i think you might have to create the > > >>$date directory before writing a file to it. > > >>writing to /tmp/dir/file.txt will fail if > > >>the directory "dir" doesn't exist. > > >> I think what is being suggested is that you may not have a directory named whatever "c:\\ccl_www\\".$date."\\ccl_www\\" expands to; frinstance if $date were 0203 you would need to have an existing directory "c:\\ccl_www\\0203\\ccl_www\\" Of course, I could be misunderstanding... -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi! Quod subigo farinam