[RESOLVED] *.dat files

Possum

Can you automatically expect that *.dat files will be accepted by a your web host if they allow php and mysql

thx

leatherback

? Your question is not clear.
Please explain what you are trying to do? In priciple you can upload any file you want. What do you want the .dat files to do?

Possum

I have a counter php script that saves its count to "counter.dat" on the server. I have not been able to get the script to run. I was worried that the server may not allow php to save to this file.

leatherback

Possum wrote:
I have a counter php script that saves its count to "counter.dat" on the server. I have not been able to get the script to run. I was worried that the server may not allow php to save to this file.

Ah, ok
Do you have writing access to this script? You may have to set it manually yourself..

  

  // Set the writeproperties
  chmod($newfpath, 0755);

And of course.. If you are trying to write to the file, you might have to make sure it exists.

If you keep having trouble, post the section that performs the write, and the paths it is trying to write to.

bradgrafelman

Also. make sure display_errors is On and that error_reporting is set to E_ALL. You can use [man]ini_set/man at the top of your script to change these values respectively.

Then, if it doesn't work, make sure to paste the exact error message PHP is giving along with the code (and an indication of what line number the error referrences, if applicable) in your post.