note 19692 added to function.fopen

This is a followup answer to php@opilki.com [from 28-Jan-2002]. I too was having problems writing files to my web site by referencing them with paths like "/home/httpd/html/blah/blah.txt". The documentation I'd read in this manual was very confusing, and it seemed to indicate I should reference a file path from the home directory. Here's the solution I found: When using fopen() on a local file [a file on the same server or directory structure as the script calling the fopen() function], the path used in referencing that file should reflect a relative path. So if the file calling fopen() is located at: [root]/scripts/static.php and the file you want to access is: [root]/files/misc/article.txt then the fopen() function, in the static.php script, should read as follows: fopen("../files/misc/article.txt","w") This will relative-reference the file, and you can then read it, write to it, whatever. In other words, it's the same as when using <img src="relative path"> in an HTML document, to reference an image file located on the same web site. This answer seems obvious enough, but the PHP manual doesn't explicitly state it anywhere. To summarize, fopen() works well with absolute URLs [http://...] and relative paths [../path/...]. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+19692 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+19692 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+19692