fopen()

[stopfocus]

This is something about the fopen() function thats bugging me.

 

If I make a call to fopen() using the 'a' mode, everything I have read says that it will create a file if it dosn't exsist  and appened it if it does. When I use Mode 'a' if the file already exsists it adds white space to the end of the files name creating a new file. For example if I use fopen() to appened to a file named bob.html and it exsists it instead makes a new file , named bob .html, and writes to that.

 

I can fix this problem using mode a+ and then it will appened info to the file instead of creating a new one. Is this how Php is supposed to fundtion are is it a bug?

[cags]

That doesn't sound right, can you show us an example usage that performs that behaviour.

[stopfocus]

The following the part  of  relevant code

* if the mode is set to a the code gives the error stated at beggining of post

 

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

if ($submit==submit){

#form ready to be sent

$valid=true;

#Validates fields have been submited

if (empty($name)){$no_name=true; $valid=false;};

if (empty($email)){$no_email=true; $valid=false;};

if (empty($confirm)){$no_confirm=true; $valid=false;};

if (empty($text)){$no_text=true; $valid=false;};

#Validates is email and email conformation validate

if ($val){$email_validation=true;$valid=false;};

if ($email !== $confirm){$no_confirm=true; $valid=false;};

if ($valid) {echo 'file written';

$file=fopen("//home/on/therange/$email.html",'a+');

fwrite($file,$body);

 

} else {echo 'form incomplete';};

}

[corbin]

Hrmmm, there are only two things I can think of:

 

-//home should be /home unless you really are trying to access the path //home

-Unless there's a major bug (and there's not), the whole a/a+ adding a space to the name thing doesn't seem likely.  Perhaps you should just run trim on $email?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

How about investigating what is in $email when your code runs? Does var_dump($email) show one extra character, beyond the visible characters, for the length? Where and what is $email being set from and what processing is your code doing on it that could be adding a character to the end of it?