PHP and fwrite function

I've been making a website lately, and have just added a registration form to enter a competition. What i want is to add the users details from the form into a text file. Everything's working as normal(the form emails the info to me after going through a processing page). Anyway - Onto my problem. I've added the following code so it will write the form information into the text file:
[PHP] $filename = 'complist.txt';
$content = "username : $username - First Name : $name1 - Last Name : $name2 - e-mail address : $email\n";
if (is_writable($filename)) {
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}

if (!fwrite($handle, $somecontent)) {
print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}

print "Success, wrote ($content) to file ($filename)";

fclose($handle);

} else {
print "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?> [/PHP]

and i get the error "Cannot Write To File(complist.txt)"

I've CHMOD'd the text file to 666, and it didn't work...and it doesn't work on 777 either. Anyone know the problem?

don't use 's, use "s in the PHP code.
And why do you have that if(is_writable) there?
It's one file, and it won't change, right?
You don't need that...

and it should be 777 or 0777.

This is off subject but Paavo, why do you say don't use 's, use "s instead? I though it was better to use 's if the string doesn't need to be processed which in the end saves proccessing time. Using "s when a string or variable doesn't need to be processed wastes time.

oh..I stand corrected I guess.
I just always use "s for the PHP, and 's for the crap it echoes out.
You're the coding guru, so I guess you know better. :D

[PHP]$filename = 'complist.txt';
$content = "username : $username - First Name : $name1 - Last Name : $name2 - e-mail address : $email\n";
if (is_writable($filename)) {
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}

if (!fwrite($handle, $content)) {
print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}

print "Success, wrote ($content) to file ($filename)";

fclose($handle);

} else {
print "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?>[/PHP]


You simply had the variable $somecontent in the fwrite, not $content.

Right on - do we have another php guru here?

I did own the domain "perfectphp.com" ;)