I would like to create a file to cache my lookups (coordinates and so on). I don't know why but I cannot create and write to it within WordPress. I am using this code for a try:
<?php
$filename = 'sitevisitors.txt';
if (file_exists($filename))
{
$count = file(TEMPLATEPATH . 'sitevisitors.txt');
$count[0] ++;
$fp = fopen(TEMPLATEPATH . "sitevisitors.txt", "w");
fputs ($fp, "$count[0]");
fclose ($fp);
echo $count[0];
}
else
{
$fh = fopen(TEMPLATEPATH . "sitevisitors.txt", "w");
if($fh==false)
die("unable to create file");
fputs ($fh, 1);
fclose ($fh);
$count = file(TEMPLATEPATH . 'sitevisitors.txt');
echo $count[0];
}
?>
I do not get any error message, but the file "sitevisitors.txt" is not created and update and does not appear on my server. What am I doing wrong? The path should be ok. My server host confirms that I have full privileges. This code works beautifully outside WordPress...
Any suggestion is welcome!
Cheers, Marina
The TEMPLATEPATH constant doesn't have a slash at the end, you should use it like:
$fh = fopen(TEMPLATEPATH . "/sitevisitors.txt", "w");
notice the slash just before the filename