note 21026 added to function.fopen

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. :-) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+21026 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+21026 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+21026