!file_exists help

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Originally Posted by kh99

Well, the ability to create a file will depend on how the server permissions are set of course. You may have your set up to allow creation of a file anywhere whereas someone else doesn't (really you probably shouldn't allow it in the same directories that your php scripts are in, but I'm not a server config expert or anything). Maybe what you want to do is have an option to specify a directory, then instruct the admin to enter a path that has create permission for whatever user the web server runs as.

well the good thing is that this variable is called within a folder acceable to admins
only, this is why the $variable is called to create a file somewhere

plugin : global start
$seeks this file upon a $true value, which allows the $event to be logged

the problem i am having with it is sharing this script which will also create the log in the same manner and folder, but they get the error message upon file creation and i dont

which i am trying to figure out if its and issue with fopen or
if (!file_exists($ourFileName))

which would be a permission issue somewhere on their webserver