FileSystemObject error

[MaxD]

I get these errors,

Warning: fopen(news.inc) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Permission denied in /home/.../.../.../.../write.php on line 11

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/.../.../.../.../write.php on line 12

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/.../.../.../.../write.php on line 13

with this code:

<?php
$file = 'news.inc';
$text = $_POST["addtext"];

if ($text = "") {
  $feedback = "String Empty";
} else {
  $handle = fopen($file, "r+");
  fwrite($file, $text);
  fclose($handle);

  $feedback = "Success";
}

?>

I've practically copied the code from the manual, the file itself is CHMOD 775 , am I missing something?

[Merve]

I don't have a very good idea...it says permission denied...you may not have the proper permissions to acess external files...talk to your system Admin.

[weevil]

One problem I see is your fwrite

fwrite($file, $text); 

the write should be to the resource handle and not the file name

fwrite($handle, $text); 

This doesn't answer the bigger permission problem though.
What about the owner and group of the file? Is the file writable by the web user?

[MaxD]

Ok, that worked. And I CHMOD'ed the "news.inc" file to 777 so everyone can write to it... my only problem is that this script isn't writing anything to the file.

I think the problem is, the part of the script that supposed to check whether or not the $GET is null or not is not doing what I want. Is there a better way to check if all the right info is comming in on the $GET? (btw: the page has a form that submits to itself, thats why I need it to not write to the file until there is something to write)

any ideas?

AND!! when I try to veiw the page in my web browser only the HTML up to the <?php tag is displayed. nothing else is sent to the browser. anyone know?