Well, to start things out, here is my code being used:

[code]<?php

$file = fopen("/mps/projects/project_" . $_POST['projectnumber'] .".php", "w");

echo fwrite($file, " * deleted whats to be written since it's not needed right now, and to save space * ");

fclose($file);

?>[/code]


The problem I'm having is that the rest of the script up until this point runs fine, but when it's suppose to execute the fopen/fwrite functions it doesn't do so. Also, just to experiment, I went to fopen("/mps/projects/project_" . $_POST... etc. and changed the fopen url to the root directory... looking something like this: fopen("test.php", "w"); echo fwrite($file, " * content * ");... pretty much just taking away all the subdirectories so that the file is created/written to in the base directory, and it works just as i want it to when I take away the extra folders (/mps/projects/). Does anyone see something I've done wrong? I'm still new with PHP but I'm sure it's not a syntax error since all I'm doing is taking away those two directories and it works just fine... I could be wrong.

Any and all help/suggestions are very much appreciated!

Well, it seems that if it wasn't functioning at all, there might be some errors posted.

Do you have error messages enabled?

Also, as a programming suggestion, after you open a file, it is good practice to check if it was opened successfully.
[code]<?php

$file = fopen("/mps/projects/project_" . $_POST['projectnumber'] .".php", "w");

if ($file)
{
      echo fwrite($file, " * deleted whats to be written since it's not needed right now, and to save space * ");
}

fclose($file);

?>[/code]

If your code doesn't step through that if statement, there was an error opening the file, and not with anything after.

Are you sure your root directory is where you think it is?

Ah, fixed that problem.

Now, I have another question, and instead of making yet another thread, I'll just post it in this one.

Can you store global variables in variables, like so:

<?php

$var = echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

?>

Uh, just $var = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

I'm not saying your wrong, but I should have stated my intentions before hand. I wanted to do something like this with it.

<?php

$var = echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

?>

<form action="<?php $var; ?>" method="post">

...etc.

Orrrr... I see, you were right. I would have to echo the variable anyhow =/ sorry lol