[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by kh99

I think this should work:

$ourFileName = $vbulletin->options['thefile'];
if (!file_exists($ourFileName)) {
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);
}

but you probably wouldn't want the "or die()" part because that would leave you with a white page with an error message. You could do something like this:

$ourFileName = $vbulletin->options['thefile'];
if (!file_exists($ourFileName)) 
{
   $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w');
   if ($ourFileHandle === FALSE)
   {
      // Do something here to handle error
   }
   else
   {
      fclose($ourFileHandle);
   }
}

Also, using "w" in the fopen call will truncate the file (make it empty), so if you don't want that, use either "r" or "a".

as long as its writeable its fine, the idea of this $ourFileName is that it shows a log
this worked for the end user but not the admin

what was happening was the following

1) user visited forum
2) if variable was true, it wrote to the $ourFileName
3) but some admins could not create this file automacially
( for me it worked ) for another website ( admin did not work )

i will use the above code to see how today goes with it