That was it Bret, thanks for pointing out my blindess... Joey -----Original Message----- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:bhughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:34 AM To: php general list Subject: Re: Help with file not writing On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:53, Joey wrote: > I'm not too good with classes, in the below class I can get the hit > counter to write to the hit counter file, but I can't get it to write > the log file, I know security is done correctly on the file because > it's the same as the counter log file, but I can't figure out why the > other file isn't being written to. > Also while the IP address works within the code prior to calling the > class > > function writeLog() > { > $ip_address=$REMOTE_ADDR; > $date_stamp=date("F j, Y, g:i a"); > $log_entry=$date_stamp . " : " . $ip_address . "\n" ; > echo "TEST-> " . $log_entry ; > $log = fopen($this->log_file,"w+"); > fputs($log,$this->$log_entry ); > fclose($log); > you set $log_entry but write $this->log_entry which does not exist. try fputs($log,$log_entry ); HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php