Posts by nonshatter

Okay, the error your getting means that fopen can't open the file you're requesting because the permissions of that file (or directory) won't allow it.

If you're server is on Linux:
From the shell cd to the directory where that file resides, and issue

chmod 777 *

This will give you full read/write/execute permissions to all files in the directory, and prevent the error from occurring again.

If you're running your site from a web host, check with them for how to change your permissions.

If it's books you want, I'd recommend PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (try and get the 3rd edition).
I managed to pick up a 2nd hand copy for £5 on Amazon.
Otherwise tiztag and w3schools are good places to start.

Is there an alternative way to send the words in the textarea to another page without using a form and submit button?

Yes, you can use a PHP Session:

Grab text from textarea and put it into a session:

<textarea name="text"> </textarea>

<?php
    $texttosend = $_POST['text'];
    $_SESSION['textareatext'] = $texttosend;
?>

Print it out on the next page:

<?php echo $_SESSION['textareatext'] ?>

Something like this should work... but not sure