Failed to open stream PHP fopen() not working

Question

I am trying to create .txt files on my server, after given input, but i get the error shown at the bottom.

<?php

$filename = $_GET["firstname"]. " ". $_GET["lastname"].".txt";

$myfile = fopen("$filename", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");

$txt = "Stuur een leuk berichtje naar deze persoon: ". $_GET["emailadres"];

fwrite($myfile, $txt);
fclose($myfile);

?>

I get the error:

Warning: fopen(test.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/students/57fasdf6/www/bevestiging.php on line 37 Unable to open file!

Thanks in advance!

Greets,

Rex

Answer 1

The reason why it is throwing that error is, php need to have write permissions on that folder, Try to give it write permissions and try again