slimpundit Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 i'm working on Ch.11 on a windows 7 with php 5.3...after downloading xampp. i put the text file: quotes.txt in the web root directory. (Is this the same area where htdocs is located?) after finishing add_quote.php and uploading it to my browser, i'm getting an error that reads: "Your quotation could not be stored due to a system error." So, i guess i'm not able to send my quote to the quote.txt file. Is it my file permissions or is it my file location that is the problem? I didn't do anything to the file permissions because the book is a bit hazy as to how windows users should deal with this. If there are any suggestions as to how i can resolve this, I'd appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Probably not with Windows, they are quite lax i find in file permissions. The txt file should go inside the htdocs folder along with the script you're using. What is the code for the script? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimpundit Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 <body> <p> <?php // Script 11.1 - add_quote.php $file = '../quotes.text'; if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){ if ( !empty($_POST['quote']) && ($_POST['quote'] != 'Enter your quotation here!.') ){ if (is_writable($file)){ // script 11.2 modified with LOCK_EX added: file_put_contents($file, $_POST['quote'] . PHP_EOL, FILE_APEND | LOCK_EX); print '<p>Your quotation has been stored.</p>'; }else { // Could not open the file. print '<p style="color: red;">Your quotation could not be stored due to a system error.</p>'; } }else { // Failed to enter a quotation. print '<p style="color: red;">Please enter a quotation!</p>'; } } // End of submitted. ?> <form action="add_quote.php" method="post"> <textarea name="quote" rows="5" cols="30">Enter your quotation here.</textarea> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add This Quote!" /> <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true" /> </form> </body> </html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimpundit Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Jonathon, I appreciate your reply. I just stuck both files into the htdocs folder and changed the location to: $file = 'quotes.txt'... I had typed text rather than txt. Sorry about wasting your time but thanks for the reply. I had tried a number of things but just overlooked the spelling error. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 No problem - glad you fixed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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