Topic awaiting preservation: counter doesn't work

hi, im making a counter using php. this is my script

<?
if(file_exists("counter.dat"))
{
$exist_file = fopen("counter.dat", "r");
$new_count = fgets($exist_file, 255);
$new_count++;
fclose($exist_file);
print("$new_count people have visited this page");
$exist_count = fopen("counter.dat", "w");
fputs($exist_count, $new_count);
fclose($exist_count);

}

else
{
$new_file = fopen("counter.dat", "w");

fputs($new_file, "1");
print("1 person have visited this page");
fclose($new_file);

}

?>


the problem i have is when i run it on my home server it works just fine, bit when i run it online, it returns 3 errors, 1 stating permission denied and 2 more saying that it cannot 'getss or 'puts' to the file. any suggestions?????

Make sure you have the proper permissions set on the counter.dat file or the PHP script won't be allowed to access it.

-Butcher-

i know close to nothing about permissions, could you extend on your suggestion and tell me how to do that or where i can find out, thanks

read http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html .

and learn to use the [code] tag...

and you should also investigate php->flock - or your counter will break once more than one person is accessing your page.

thanks for the help guys,

i finally figured out how to change the permission settings for files and folders on my web server