content write to file

[deepaks85]

Dear Friends,

I am trying to write and append content to a notepad file and I am getting the error "Couldn't open file". Here is the code:

[PHP]<?php
$myfile = "dtest.txt" ;
$openfile = fopen ($myfile,"w") or die ("Couldn't open the file");

fwrite ($openfile,"Thi s is a string \n");
fclose ($openfile);

$openfile = fopen ($myfile,"r") or die ("Couldn't open the file");
$file_size=file size($myfile);

$file_contents = fread ($openfile,$fil e_size);
$msg ="$file_content s";

fclose ($openfile);
echo $msg;
?>[/PHP]

Please tell me where I am making mistake.

Please advice......... ...

Thanks
Deepak

[ben808]

mmm - for starters I think I would take out the "or die" statements first if you can just so you can view the real error message from php with line number etc. - it's probably a permissions issue I would guess - bit difficult to say without the true error message...

[pbmods]

Heya, Deepak.

I am getting the error "Couldn't open file".

Unfortunately, you have two error messages that both say the same thing, so it won't help you much when you're debugging. The first thing I would do in this situation is to change the error messages you're getting to 'Couldn't open the file for writing.' and 'Couldn't open the file for reading.' That way, at least you know *when* your script is failing.

As ben808 mentioned, failing to open a file for writing is generally a permissions issue (whereas failing to open a file for reading is generally a 'file not found').