write to file instead of sendmail

[technodiva]

I need some help, I have a flash program with the php file sendmail...

<?
if(!empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_mail']) || !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_message']) || !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_subject']) || !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_name']))
{
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Submitted from the SCL website / SCL mailing List";
$body = stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_message']);
$body .= "I would like to be added to the monthly SCL mailing list for legal tips and tricks. Please add my email address to your list.";
$body .= " My email address is: " . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_name'] . " " . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_mail'] . "";
$header = "From: " . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_name'] . " <" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_mail'] . ">\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: " . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_name'] . " <" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_mail'] . ">\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 1";
if(@mail($to, $subject, $body, $header))
{
echo "output=sent";
} else {
echo "output=error";
}
} else {
echo "output=error";
}
?>

This code works great...however, the email gets filtered out by Verizon, so I would like to instead, submit this info to a file in my private directory...like I do on the html pages _private/form_results.txt -- I would rather not change any of the flash script which calls sendmail.php...

I am a php newbie...this is what I came up with...any help would be greatlly appreciated...

This doesn't work....

Flash calls sendmail.php...we know that works...this is my new sendmail...based on the post variable from the previous sendmail

<?php
$email=$HTTP_POST_VARS['sender_mail'];

$fp = fopen("_private/forms_result.txt","a");
if(!$fp) {
print "error! The file could not be opened";
exit;
}
$stringtowrite=$email
fwrite($fp, $stringtowrite);
fclose($fp);
?>

:bemused:

[biggus]

Two things to check for:

1) is your directory called "_private" in the same directory as your sendmail script?
2) does your script have read/write permissions for that directory?

Biggus

[technodiva]

yes...it is in the same directory...I actually even tried moving the text file out of the private folder in the same root directory

How do I check to see if the script has read/write access?

I was reading somewhere about CHMOD?

Thanks!

[biggus]

you're on the right path with chmod. For security reasons, someone correct me if I'm wrong, you don't want to make a web-accessible directory (where the files can be accessed from a browser) writeable. For this reason, I'd stick a folder either in /usr/local or just at the root level (so you remember where it is) and make that writeable with chmod 664. It might be 666, I'm not sure off the top of my head.

Biggus