Unable to write to text file

Question

I am writing a hit counter plugin for Q2A. I used qa-plugin.php to register a widget module. Here is part of the code:

 

<?php

$file = fopen('hits.txt','r+') or exit('Unable to open file.');

$current = fgets($file) + 1;

rewind($file);

fwrite($file, $current) or exit('Unable to write to file.');

fclose($file);

echo $current;

?>

 

I am getting the error "Unable to open file", even though I set the permissons to 777. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Why not just:

<?php
$file = 'people.txt';
// Open the file to get existing content
$current = file_get_contents($file);
// Append a new person to the file
$current .= "John Smith\n";
// Write the contents back to the file
file_put_contents($file, $current);
?>

?

Comments

Thanks for the reply Noah. The problem is I can't do anything with a file because file_exists('hits.txt') always returns FALSE even though the file is there.

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