Question

I provide this directory & file:

$path = $_POST['q2Path'];
$file = "test.txt";
// q2Path == "C:\Users\micah\Desktop\only_dir_named_this"

The code runs this block:

$write_str = "TEST TEST TEST";
$fh = fopen($file, 'a') or die("can't open: $path\\$file");
$chars = fwrite($fh, $write_str) or die("can't write to: $path\\$file");
fclose($fh) or die("can't close: $path\\$file");
echo "<pre>&gt; Appended $chars characters to: $path\\$file</pre>"; 

This is the browser output:

Appended 14 characters to: C:\Users\micah\Desktop\only_dir_named_this\test.txt

And in the end, the file is empty and the ‘last modified’ timestamp hasn’t changed. I’m not sure what’s up. I’m using ZendServer on Win7. Perhaps there’s a php.ini setting that needs adjustment? I’ve never had a problem with a simple file write…

Answer 1

You write $path\\$file, but you do fopen($file, 'a')

It should be

$fh = fopen($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $file, 'a') or die("can't open: $path\\$file");