How can I read from and write to a local directory from any self-hosted Wordpress blog page using PHP?

Question

I want to read and write text files to /data/filename.txt using php. This functionality works fine on the main page, but if I click the Previous Entries button (which switches to page 2), the php script does not seem to be present (as the Flash files are unable to access it).

Answer 1

If I understand your site correctly, your Flash tries to load data from http://www.consolebias.com/text_poll.php. You probably coded this link as just text_poll.php in your Flash file. This works on the homepage, but not on a page that has a URL that looks like it comes from another directory, like http://consolebias.com/page/2 (even if it is a "fake" directory, the browser, where Flash runs, doesn't know that). Here, the Flash object tries to load the data from http://consolebias.com/page/text_poll.php, which doesn't exist.

If you change the reference of text_poll.php to /text_poll.php, it will always load it from the root, and it should work.