I'm trying to build a PHP counter (not very good, but it'll do the job) and can't figure out what's going wrong. Basically it reads the number (what the counter is at) from a text file and increments it, puts it to the screen, writes the updated number back to the text file and closes it.
<?php
/*source of file*/
$filename = 'current.txt';
/*open the file (r+ for read+write)*/
$fp = fopen($filename,'r+');
/*read the file and store it in $currentval (1 line)*/
$currentval = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
/*increment the value (because it's a counter)*/
$currentval++;
/*write it to the screen*/
echo $currentval;
/*write the incremented value to the source file*/
fwrite ($fp, $currentval);
/*close the file*/
fclose ($fp);
?>
No errors are generated from the code, and it just seems as though fwrite() isn't working (I'm probably not using it properly). Online Function Reference at: http://ca.php.net/function.file
I tried uploading, and it worked sort of, ended up fixing it eventually... For those interested:
<?php
$filename = 'current.txt'; /*source of file*/
$fp = fopen($filename,'r+'); /*open the file (r+ for read+write)*/
flock($fp, 2); /*lock the file*/
$currentval = fread($fp, filesize($filename)); /*read the file and store it in $currentval (1 line)*/
$currentval++; /*increment the value (because it's a counter)*/
echo $currentval; /*write it to the screen*/
fseek($fp,0); /*go to beginning of file*/
fputs ($fp, $currentval); /*write the incremented value to the source file*/
flock($fp, 3); /*unlock the file*/
fclose ($fp); /*close the file*/
?>