I have had to insert a counter in a page for a client but...

i have used this code before, but for some reason i get this error

Warning: fopen(counter.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /counter.php on line 14
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Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /counter.php on line 20

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /counter.php on line 22

PHP Code:

<?php 

  
      $counter = "counter.txt"; 
      
      function displayCounter($counter) { 

      $fp = fopen($counter,rw); 

      $num = fgets($fp,9999); 

      fclose($fp); 

      $fp = fopen($counter,w); 

      $num += 1; 

      print "$num"; 

      fputs($fp, $num); 

      fclose($fp); 

      }        
      displayCounter($counter); 
      

?>

Its got me stumped! Any ideas??

p.s the site has PHP enabled and the counter.txt just has a number in there so i didnt post it

Thanks guys and gals

Have you changed the file permissions?
I'd try to chmod it to 777

i cant alter the cmod, its browser upload

thanks

This is a permissions error the txt file must be writable Try useing this ftp client it allows you to chmod the files in ftp mode check it out and give it a try.

http://www.ipswitch.com/products/ws_ftp/index.asp

i see. Tried using the chmod function in php?
http://no.php.net/chmod

Even using the IE browser you can right-click on the file and then click all the boxes for read/write/execute. This will be the same as Chmod 777