hi, i hope someone can help.
Im pretty new to this php stuff and i have a slight problem. I have
this script (shown below) which writes data to a text file which is
then displayed on my front page. Trouble is after moving to an apache
server with php on a windows platform the script no longer works. It
worked fine on the unix platform. All it does now is just wipes the
text file and does not write anyhing else to it, any help would be
much appreciated.
<?php
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////set the
following///////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$max = "730"; // sets the maximum amount of chars allowed per post.
$urpassword = "PASSWORD"; //set to your desired password.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$date_array = getdate();
$time = date("l, d M Y");
if ($x == "1") {
global $urpassword;
if ($password == $urpassword){
global $max;
if ( strlen($news) > 3 and strlen($news) <= $max){
global $news, $time;
$filename = "news.txt";
$fp = fopen( $filename, "w" ) or die ("no file opening is
occuring"); //$fp is short for file pointer
flock($fp,1); //allows file reading but prevents writing
fwrite($fp," ");
rewind($fp); // re-sets file pointer to start of file.
$newsall = "<strong>.: : $time ::.</strong><br><br> $news ";
fwrite( $fp, $newsall); //writes the value of the counter to
where filepointer is.
flock($fp,3); //releases file
print "<p align='left'>Ne ws data has been written to
file:<br>";
print "<b>$news</b> ";
print "<br>Go <a href='javascrip t:history.back( )'
style='text-decoration: none'>[back]</a> and refresh page to view new
changes.</p>";
} else if ($news == NULL){
print "<p align='left'>Pl ease enter some news
<a href='javascrip t:history.back( )' style='text-decoration:
none'>[back]</a></p>";
} else {
print "<p align='left'><f ont size='2' face='Arial'>An error
has occurred, news must be at least 4 chars and less than
$max.</font></p>";
}
} else {
print "<b>$passwo rd</b> was not accepted as a password <a
href='javascrip t:history.back( )' style='text-decoration:
none'>[back]</a><br>";
}
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR " content="Micros oft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontP age.Editor.Docu ment">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Sunk Scripts: Simple News</title>
<style fprolloverstyle >A:hover {color: #000000}
</style>
</head>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Enter a small news bulletin and your
password </font>
</html>
<font face="Arial" size="2">below</font><html><fon t face="Arial"
size="2">: </font>
<font face="Arial" size="1">(<?php global $max; print $max; ?> chars
max)</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br><b r>Date Stamp: <b><?php
print $time; ?></b></font>
<body text="#000000" link="#000080" vlink="#000080" alink="#000080"
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt">
<form method="POST" action=<?php print("$PHP_SEL F"); ?>>
<p>
<textarea rows="9" name="news" cols="38" style="border-style: solid;
border-width: 1"></textarea><br>
<input type="password" name="password" size="20"
style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1"> <in put
type="hidden" name="x" size="1"
value="1">  ; &n bsp;   ; &n bsp;   ; &n bsp;   ; &n bsp;   ;
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1" style="font-family:
Arial; font-size: 10px; background-color: #FFFFFF"><input type="reset"
value="Reset" name="B2" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px;
background-color: #FFFFFF"></p>
</form>
</body></html>
<b>Current Headline:</b><br><?php include("news.t xt");?>
</body>
