fclose() error and can't figure it out!

[BLiZZaRD]

okay I made the whoami.php and it said my usr name

I am not sure what you mean for me to do with this:

$ chown -R `php whoami.php` scores

[Twey]

It's a shell command. Run it as the user that currently owns the files. It will change the ownership of scores and all files under it to the user output by whoami.php.

[BLiZZaRD]

using putty I did that command..

it responded with:

chown 'php whoami.php' :invalid user


:cry: :whine: :cry:

[Twey]

Those are backticks (`) not apostrophes ('). I only used them for simplicity; you could just as well substitute the output of the whoami.php file for `php whoami.php`.

[BLiZZaRD]

I am back after a long delay of this stupid thing called real life...

I have verified with the host, and the folders are most definetly mine. It is something in this php code I am sure... I just don't know what.

here is the complete script:

<?php

	$winscore = (int)$winscore;

	// Create a Blank File if it doesn't already exist
	if (!file_exists($filename))
	{
		$file=fopen($filename, "w");
		fclose ($file);
	}

	// Read the file in
	$oscores = file ($filename);
	$numreadin = count($oscores);

	// Break out the data into a new 2-d array called $tscores
	for ($i = 0; $i < $numreadin; $i++)
	{
		$g = unserialize($oscores[$i]);
		$tscores[$i][0] = $g[0];
		$tscores[$i][1] = $g[1];
	}

	// Fill in any missing data with none/0
	for ($i = $numreadin; $i < $scoresize; $i++)
	{
		$tscores[$i][0] = 0;
		$tscores[$i][1] = "";
	}

	// Process the actions	

	// Insert a score/name
	if ($action == "INSERT")
	{

		// Add name to end of list, and sort
		$tscores[$scoresize + 1][0] = $winscore;
		$tscores[$scoresize + 1][1] = $winname;
		rsort ($tscores);

		$file=fopen($filename, "w");

		// Write them out
		for ($i = 0; $i < $scoresize; $i++)
		{
			$st = serialize($tscores[$i]) . "\n";
			fputs($file, $st);
		}

		fclose($file);
	}

	// Clear the list	
	if ($action == "CLEAR")
	{

		$k[0] = 0;
		$k[1] = "no-one";
		$ser = serialize($k);

		$file=fopen($filename, "w");

		for ($i = 0; $i < $scoresize; $i++)
		{
			$st = $ser . "\n";
			fputs($file, $st);
		}

		fclose($file);
	}

	// Process the OUTPUT options
	if ($viewtype == "HTML")
	{
	  // HTML PAGE CREATED HERE
	  ?>


		
<table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 border=0 width="330">
  <tr align=center> 
    <th bgcolor="#663300" width="80"><font color="#ffff00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Rank</font></th>
    <th bgcolor="#663300" width="126"><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Name</font></th>
    <th bgcolor="#663300" width="104"><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Score</font></th>
  </tr>
  <?
	
		for ($i = 0; $i < $scoresize; $i++)
		{
			echo ("<tr bgcolor='#669933' align='center'><td><font size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>");
			echo ($i + 1);
			echo ("</font></td><td><font size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>");
			echo ($tscores[$i][1]);
			echo ("</font></td><td><font size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>");
			echo ($tscores[$i][0]);
			echo ("</font></td></tr>");
		}

  	  ?>
</table>
	  <?

	}

	// FLASH DATA CREATED HERE
	if ($viewtype == "FLASH")
	{
		for ($i = 0; $i < $scoresize; $i++)
		{
			echo ("name" . $i . "=");
			echo ($tscores[$i][1]);
			echo ("&score" . $i . "=");
			echo ($tscores[$i][0]);
			echo ("&");
		}
	}

?>

the error I get is:

[09-May-2006 15:55:27] PHP Warning:  fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /path/to/the/folder/scores.php on line 9

Any ideas? I am just befuddled with this whole thing.

I really do not want to have to code 6000 lines of action script again just to make an external high scores list for Flash... sigh.. anything? anyone?

Thanks guys!

[Twey]

Is $filename defined?

[BLiZZaRD]

in the Flash file I have it defined as this:

_global.scoreFile = "scores/highscores.sco";

This tells the flash file that scores/highscores.sco is the file name to use everytime "scoreFile" is called

In the 2 places I call the script (load and submit) I have this:

_root.filename = _global.scoreFile;

As far as in the php file itself, I guess not, if it's not in there. All I do know about this php file (I didn't write it, obv. ) is that it is to open highscores.sco, if it is already there, and create it if it does not yet exist.

[Twey]

Well, that's probably your problem, then Define $filename = "scores/highscores.sco"; somewhere before calling that code.

[BLiZZaRD]

I will give that a try and let you know!

Thanks Twey!

[BLiZZaRD]

Well, that ALMOST worked! LOL

I added the definition and now it created the highscores.sco file like it was supposed to.

That tells me everything is reading and sending just fine.

I don't get an error log either!

The only problem now, is that it doesn't write to the sco file. It stays blank.

I CHMOD to 777 on virtually every file there, and still nothing.

I think I need another break. I can't afford to throw another computer out the window.

If you have any ideas about the writing thing though I would love to hear them.

I have a feeling I am going to have to re-do the Flash portion now though. greeeaaat... sigh.