Simple Problem

[BIOSTALL]

Hey, I've been trying to get this to work for an hour and i just cannot work out whats wrong with my code. I used the same code in a 'mailing list' script and that works fine so i cant make out whats wrong with this one. I am using a flat file that gets 1 added to it everytime someone views the site. Here it is:

$vcountfilename = "VisitorCount.txt";

$vcmyfile = @fopen($vcountfilename, "r") or die("Error opening file");
$vcontents = fread($vcmyfile, filesize($vcountfilename));
fclose($vcmyfile);

$vcontents = ($vcontents + 1);

$vcmyfile = @fopen($vcountfilename, "w") or die("Error opening count file1");
@fwrite($vcmyfile, $vcontents) or die("Error with addition");
fclose($vcmyfile);

BTW, VisitorCount.txt is not empty so that cant be the problem. I am getting the error: "Error opening count file1".

Any1 see a problem with it?

Ask if you have any questions about it.

Thanks,

BIOSTALL

[Roger_Ramjet]

Apparently you can open the file to read it so the only thing I can think of is that you, or rather your script, does not have write access to the file.

[Installer]

What error message do you get when you remove the "@" sign?

[rob76]

Your script works fine. 2 possible reasons why it doesn't work for you

1) Your CHMOD settings need changing to allow write permission

2) Are all the pages you want to count in the same directory as VisitorCount.txt ? - If not, you will need to specify the full path to the file on the server.

If you don't know what this is, run this script in the directory where your VisitorCount.txt is..

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];