fopen fwrite can not get to work

[ridckie_rich]

$ft = @fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename,'w');

	@fwrite($ft,$str);
	@fclose($ft);

I can not get the code above to setup a file on my host whate are the problems

[NogDog]

Probably a permissions problem. As most web servers run PHP scripts under a separate user account rather than under each user's personal account, you may need to add "world" write permission to the directory where you want to write this file. A quick test would be:

<?php
$ft = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename,'w');
if($ft == FALSE)
{
   if(!is_writable($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']))
   {
      die("You need to add write permission to ".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
   }
   elseif(file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename) && !is_writable($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename)
   {
      die($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename." already exists but is not writable by this script");
   }
   else
   {
      die("An unknown error occurred trying to open ".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$thefilename." for writing");
   }
}
?>

Also, while trying to debug PHP script problems, you might want to remove the error-suppression "@" characters from you function calls until you are sure the script is correct.

[bradgrafelman]

Please don't cross-post between different forums. Thanks.