write to .data files? nothing happening

ru_ie

Hi,

I have script working fine and saying it is writing to a .data file but when I view the .data file nothing has been added?
Anythoughts?

ednark

do you have permissions to the directory where you are writing files?
do you have php logging all errors?
have you looked through your log files for any hints?

if you want more specific help please post more specific code, it's hard to guess without seeing what you are running?

ru_ie

Hey, thanks - here is the code -
<?php

//get userMail
$userMail = $_POST["add_me"];

//myMail to store -
$values = "Email: $userMail\r\n";

//Open file for storage
$fp = fopen("notify_emails.txt", "a+") or die("Couldnt open to write");
$numBytes = fwrite($fp, $values) or die("Couldnt write data");

fclose($fp);
echo "write $numBytes was successful";

I have tried this with both .data/.txt - the files are set as 777 - It will write "Email:" no problem - but the text entered in the field is not written -
this is the form:

<form action="adduser.php" method ="POST">
Email: <input type="text" name="add_me" size="30" maxlength="30">
<input type="submit" value="add"></form>

thanks in advance

mahers

Just a guess.

$values = "Email:".$userMail."\r\n";

ru_ie

Thanks - tried it but still no luck - only writes "Email:" -

I'm lost on this one, anyone got a fix?

Thanks in hopeful advance..

ednark

try this

./notify_emails.txt instead of notify_emails.txt

$fp = fopen("./notify_emails.txt", "a+") or die("Couldnt open to write");

and

$userMail = isset($POST["add_me"]) ? $POST["add_me"] ; 'userMail Not Found in Post';

does this show you anything insighful from the error messages?

make sure the file already exists and perhaps try giving permissions to the directory also... if it doesn't have dir premissions it can't create the file if it does not exist...

but reallly your code looks good... what is the specific error emssage