Write to file quit working... PHP5.2?

[Farmbot]

I have 7 lines of code that quit working after years

of smooth sailing, allegedly because my servers

updated to PHP 5.2

 

It let flash pass variables to the PHP and then write

them to a text file.

 

<?php
$myFile = "picks.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file");

echo "Your picks have been submited";

fwrite($fh, $newcontent);
fclose($fh);
?>

 

I've been looking online for days trying to figure out what

might need to be updated, but I had no idea there were

multiple versions of PHP until this happened so, I'm at a

loss on how to even research this.

 

Any ideas?

 

And thanks for reading this far!

[Jessica]

Register globals.

[requinix]

...has been turned off in the new version you have, which is exactly how it should be.

$newcontent = (isset($_POST["newcontent"]) ? (string)$_POST["newcontent"] : "");

[Farmbot]

Hot diggity!

 

Thanks Jessica for getting it started, and hail to requinix, because

I was currently researching "register globals" and don't know how

long it would have taken me to get to the code that you provided!

 

It works again!

[Jessica]

I'm lazy(er) when on the mobile site. Thanks requinix