This bit of code is supposed to write a little message to a file called data.dat and then print a confirmation message saying everything went ok. Now everything works exept that when you open the file that was written to, "data.dat", there isn't a message just giberish. Anybody know why?

Let me try that again: This bit of code is supposed to write a little message to a file called data.dat and then print a confirmation message saying everything went ok. Now everything works exept that when you open the file that was written to, "data.dat", there isn't a message just giberish. Anybody know why? /\?php $file_name = "data.dat"; // absolute path : \home\data.dat $file_pointer = fopen($file_name, "w"); // "w" is the mode, or the action we're // going to perform on the file // Detailed info at end of page fwrite($file_pointer, "what you wanna write"); // Writing to the file, after truncating it // to 0 bytes fclose($file_pointer); // everything comes to an end! print "data written to file successfuly"; ?/\

This should work... $fp = "data.dat"; // FILE POINTER fopen($fp, "w"); // OPEN FILE, TRUNCATE TO 0 fputs($fp, "Some text here"); // PUT DATA INTO FILE fclose($fp); // CLOSE FILE echo "Data written successfully to file!"; ?> (If that didn't post right, I'll try again)

That works perfectly. Thank you very much!