Writting fopen() errors to text

[4rxsid]

Hi all,

Simple question, just can't seem to find the answer.

When doing an fopen() call....when it fails for any reason, how can I write the error to a text file (to keep an error log), instead of stdout??

Thanks!

[batman]

Put the error message into a variable, then do something like this:

<?php
$filename = 'errors.txt';
$error = "Your error message in here";

// change this to the if an error was made
if (error was made) {

// Write error to our opened file.
if (!fwrite($handle, $error)) {
    print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
    exit;
}

print "Success, wrote ($error) to file ($filename)";

fclose($handle);

} 
?>

Hope that helps ya'
     -Blake

[4rxsid]

thanks for the reply batman, but...

the script's i'm writting are more like shell scripts to do work on an intranet LAN, win2000 system (not a website per-say).

i'm looking to trap the actual stdout errors that are displayed when run from a cmd prompt. the users looking at these error logs are technical, so having the error output being user friendly isn't needed.