Under "Getting Information on Files" the sample hit_counter_10.php is listed. The page says, "If it doesn't, we can infer that the current user is the first visitor to the site and create the data file."

I tried running the sample without a count.dat file in the directory and it didn't create one. It said, "Warning: fopen(./count.dat): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/something.com/html/learnphp/hit_counter_10.php on line 12
Cannot open ./count.dat"

Did I do something wrong? Isn't that sample supposed to create a count.dat file? Or did I read it wrong?

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Oh, man... Do I ever feel stupid. I didn't put write permissions on the directory. That's why it wasn't creating the count.dat file.

It would be nice if the book could have given us a heads up about that.

Yeah, it would be nice... but then again, how much more of a descriptive error do you need than "Permission denied"? It's the kind of thing that's frustrating while you're trying to figure it out, but once you do, you kick yourself because the answer was extremely obvious and right in front of you.


Take care,

Nik
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