stupid php question (stream_get_contents)

I can't seem to get this php code to work:

<?php

$file = '/home/gamesjet/public_html/test.txt';

if (is_writable($file) == false) {
        die('Unable to write to file');
}

// The data
$data = fopen("http://www.example.com/", "a+");

// Write to file
file_put_contents ($file, $data);

?>

PHP:

i get this error:

Unable to write to file


test.txt is chmodded to 777.

 

Do you have read/write access to the file? Perhaps you don't have permission to write. . . .

 

Just a quick guess, I don't have much knowledge of this function, but shouldn't the fopen lead to /home/gamesjet/public_html/test.txt , instead of that web url?

 

Crayz, I believe the fopen is opening the data he wants to write into the text file. I believe. . . .

who knows. . .

Maybe he can be more specific. . .

 

all the fopen is doing is opening the connection to the website. he needs a file_get_contents in there to actually set $data before writing. as of right now all it is doing is setting $data as the file handler.
http://us2.php.net/file-put-contents
http://us2.php.net/file-get-contents
http://us2.php.net/fopen

$a = file_get_contents("http://www.foo.com");
file_put_contents("my_file.txt",$a);

PHP:

also file_put_contents is limited to php5 only so if using prior versions, use fopen and fwrite

 

ahh, now I see.