Newbie question

Anon

Hi,
sorry if this is to simple, but I am a newbie with PHP.
I am testing a guestbook script, and it shall open a txt-file (guestbook.txt) and write in it.
I get tis error: Warning: fopen("guestbook.txt","a") - Permission denied in /../.../..../..../ssi/php/guestbook.php on line 22
The server I use is Linux, the path is "/usr/bin/php" (how shall I use the path???)
Line 22 is: if ($fd = (fopen($filename, "a"))) {
$filename is: $filename = "guestbook.txt";

help me....?

Anon

you need to give your self the proper permissions to write to your directory.

look into the command line CHMOD command.

http://www.google.com/search?q=CHMOD+site%3Aphpbuilder.com&btnG=Google+Search

Anon

Thanks for respond!
Now I have tried "everything", and I have been reading everything I found at Google.
I copy the script and hope you can look at it:
<?
$filename = "guestbook.txt";

if ($name) {
$message = str_replace("<", "<", $message);
$message = str_replace(">", ">", $message);
$message = str_replace("\n", " \n", $message);

if (!(substr($url, 0, 7) == "http://"))

$url = "http://" . $url;
chmod("$filename", 0755);
chmod("/ssi/php/guestbook.php", 0755);
if ($fd = (fopen($filename, "a"))) {
fwrite($fd, "Fra: $name \n");
fwrite($fd, "E-post: <a href=\"mailto:$email\">$email</a> \n");
fwrite($fd, "URL: <a href=\"$url\">$url</a>\n");
fwrite($fd, $message);
fwrite($fd, "\n<hr>\n");
fclose($fd);
} else {
print("ERROR: cannot open $filename for writing\n");
}

}

if ($fd = (fopen($filename, "r"))) {
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);
print($contents);
} else {
print("ERROR: cannot open $filename for reading\n");
}
?>

Regards from Willy