writing to a text file

[Atari]

I'm very new to php and i'm trying to make a form were people have to fill in a name, email and a number. With the number they have they can win a shirt of our band. Now i want to store the information in a textfile using fopen but when i use this an error occures that the file couldn't be opened. though the txt file is in the same directory as the php file. Could any one please help me.
Here's my code;
I also included my form file.
<?php

$fp = fopen("file.txt","a");
if(!$fp) {
print "error! The file could not be opened";
exit;
}

$stringtowrite=$naam."|".$email."|"."$lijst".|."$number";
fwrite($fp, $stringtowrite);
fclose($fp);

if ($number == 100000)
{
echo 'U have won!';
} else
{
echo 'Sorry, you haven't won anything!';
}
?>

If you could help me with other funtions I'd might need, please let me know!
thanx,
Tim

[pwebb0617]

I could be wrong, but it appears to be that your if statement, ie:

if (!$fp)
{
}

isn't qualified enough. It seems like it would have to be something to the effect of:

if (!$fp == "TRUE")
{
}

...for it to work properly. Check out
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php and see what it states about the return value of the fopen() command. At the moment, it looks like (since there isn't a proper qualification of the conditions to be met) the IF statement above is always returning true. This also happens when you create an IF statement that says

IF ($variable = 1)

as opposed to

IF ($variable == 1)

where there are two equal signs. The first IF statement above will always return TRUE even if $variable doesn't equal 1.

Hope that helps a little.

pwebb0617

[SpasePeepole]

Make sure your file file.txt is chmodded to 777

[TRJ]

You have a few small errors in your script. Try the following, which I think is a slightly better way of doing it:

<?php

$fp = fopen("file.txt","a");
if($fp) {

$stringtowrite=$naam."|".$email."|".$lijst."|".$number;
fwrite($fp, $stringtowrite);
fclose($fp);
}

else
{
print "error! The file could not be opened";
exit;
}

if ($number == 100000)
{
echo 'U have won!';
} else
{
echo 'Sorry, you haven\'t won anything!';
}

?>

Also the main problem lies with permissions, but not the file, the directory. Make sure that the directory has write permissions.

[Joshua_Burdick]

Im kind of an absent minded person so I often times forget to change the permissions of the text file, this is relativley simple on a unix style server, just browse to the directory the file is in using an FTP program and give the command

chmod 0666 file.txt

Hope this helps.

Joshua Burdick