fwrite

[Anon]

hi. im new to php, and ive some problems with the f* commands, hope you all can offer me some advice. basically the code goes like this:

<?
$filename = "guestbook.txt";
$guestbook = fopen($filename,"a+");
fwrite($guestbook,$name,5);
fwrite($guestbook,$entry,10);

while(!feof($guestbook)) {
$buffer = fgets($guestbook,4096);
echo "$buffer<br>";
}
fclose($guestbook);
?>

what ive been trying to do, is to append entries into the end of guestbook.txt.
ive tried to manually add the entries in, by using guestbook.php?name=name1&entry=entry1

however, if i do that, it will loop infinitely. it does not loop infinitely if i access only guestbook.php.

hope you all can point out the fwrite, fopen and fclose errors to me if there is. thanks

[Anon]

$filename = "guestbook.txt";
// here you've opened the file for appending
$guestbook = fopen($filename,"a+");

fwrite($guestbook,$name,5);
fwrite($guestbook,$entry,10);

// now you need to close it and open it for reading
fclose($guestbook);
$guestbook = fopen($filename, 'r');
while(!feof($guestbook)) {
$buffer = fgets($guestbook,4096);
echo "$buffer<br>";
}
fclose($guestbook);

[Anon]

ive modified the code accordingly, but it does not append to the bottom of the file. the current file permission is 666. have it got to do with the webserver, or the file permissions? please advice.

[Anon]

okay peeps i think i got it. it has got to do with the txt file permissions. thanks for your help anyway diego. 🙂