On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Daniel P. Brown <daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:30, Larry <lrrrgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, when I pass a variable whose value originally came from $_GET >> or $_REQUEST to fwrite, fwrite behaves as if it was passed an empty >> string. Note that the file is successfully opened and written to by >> the script, but the variable that originally came from $_GET does not >> have its value interpolated in the text file, even though it does get >> interpolated in the echo(). >> >> ---- Code ---- >> <? >> $meh = $_GET["q"]; >> $writeline = ":" . $meh . ":" . strlen($meh) . PHP_EOL; >> echo ( $writeline ); >> >> $fp = fopen("/tmp/wtf.log","w+"); >> fwrite($fp, $writeline ); >> fclose($fp); >> >> var_dump($writeline); >> ?> > > Are you sure it's not a permissions-based issue, perhaps when > writing as the normal user, then the user as which the web server > runs, et cetera? What happens if you completely remove /tmp/wtf.log > and re-run your script with the appended query string? I have removed the wtf.log file between runs, just did it once more. Same thing happens. A new file is created, and the contents are "::0" So I'm sure its not a permissions issue ( However I'm also sure that this shouldn't be happening so... ) Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php