file_put_contents problems

[Carlos Maya]

Hi, I am very new in this language and I have some problems and I can`t handle it.

Maybe somebody can help me?
file_put_contents and fopen does not work for my and I don´t know what happen :S


Abstract:
1. I need read a random line in a txt hosted in a FTP
2. I need delete this randome line from that txt
3. Next I need put the extracted random line in another txt (not coded yet)


Here is my code:

/***************************************/
$file = "ftp://USER:[e-mail]/words2.txt";
$lines = count(file($file));
$topic = explode("\n", file_get_contents($file));
$random = rand(0,$lines);
$random_topic = $topic[$random];
 
unset($topic[$random]);
file_put_contents($file, implode('', $topic), LOCK_EX);
 
/****************************************/
 

I tried by 2 ways write some files in my host:

file_put_contents($file, "sometext", FILE_APPEND);

AND

$fh = fopen("$file", "w");
fwrite($fh, "sometext");
fclose($fh);

But those does not work. I put this file 0777 permitions and does not work :S

Someone knows what happening?

PHPversion: 5
Host: http://www.x10hosting.com/

Thanks in advance.

Regards

[Dormilich]

what is allow_url_fopen (php.ini) set to?

[Carlos Maya]

Thanks for your try, I solved it moving all my data to noFTP system, I think that my server block in any way the FTP connections.

Regards