Try to write files using php5 on Linux

[Matthias Braun]

Help!

I am using SuSE 9.3, php5 and Apache2 on Linux. I try to write files to
the hard drive using the following command:

$filename = "test.txt";
if (!file_exists($ filename))
touch($filename );
if (is_writable($f ilename))
$myfile = fopen( $filename,'w+') ;
else
{
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit(1);
}

The script neither creates a file nor open it for writing. When using
the same script on Windows everything works fine so I think it is a
permission problem.

Thanks in advance,

Matthias

[Riccardo Natali]

Matthias Braun wrote:
check the owner:group permission on the folder/file
if (!($fp = fopen(TEMPLATE_ PATH.$path.'/'.$file, 'w')))
{
echo "ERROR open file";
} else {
fwrite($fp, $content);
fclose($fp);
}

Bye

R

[Ken Robinson]

Matthias Braun wrote:

Help!

I am using SuSE 9.3, php5 and Apache2 on Linux. I try to write files to
the hard drive using the following command:

$filename = "test.txt";
if (!file_exists($ filename))
touch($filename );
if (is_writable($f ilename))
$myfile = fopen( $filename,'w+') ;
else
{
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit(1);
}

The script neither creates a file nor open it for writing. When using
the same script on Windows everything works fine so I think it is a
permission problem.

Remember on Linux, the Apache web server runs as a process with very
little priveleges. If you need it to write to a file, the directory
which the file will be in needs to be writeable by everyone.

Ken

[Jerry Stuckle]

Matthias Braun wrote:

Help!

I am using SuSE 9.3, php5 and Apache2 on Linux. I try to write files to
the hard drive using the following command:

$filename = "test.txt";
if (!file_exists($ filename))
touch($filename );
if (is_writable($f ilename))
$myfile = fopen( $filename,'w+') ;
else
{
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit(1);
}

The script neither creates a file nor open it for writing. When using
the same script on Windows everything works fine so I think it is a
permission problem.

Thanks in advance,

Matthias

What are your permissions for the directory? Does the Apache user have write
permission for it?
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[SOR]

<comp.lang.ph p , Matthias Braun , ma*******@web.d e>
<42************ ***********@new sread4.arcor-online.net>
<Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:30:41 +0200>

I am using SuSE 9.3, php5 and Apache2 on Linux. I try to write files to
the hard drive using the following command:

$filename = "test.txt";
if (!file_exists($ filename))
touch($filename );
if (is_writable($f ilename))
$myfile = fopen( $filename,'w+') ;
else
{
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit(1);
}

The script neither creates a file nor open it for writing. When using
the same script on Windows everything works fine so I think it is a
permission problem.

touch($filename ); chmod($filename , 0766);

TMK once you create a file you need to chmod it before you can write to
it and what the folder (if any) is chmodded to is also important for non
windows hosting .

[SOR]

<comp.lang.ph p , SOR , we*******@spare sorrepair.co.uk .INVALID>
<MP************ ************@no-cancel.newsread er.com>
<Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:17:10 +0100>

chmod($filename , 0766);

With regard to the webpage('filena me.php') thingy .

Why isnt chmod(,) called something like change(,) if the name assigned
to the function isnt important .

Or do some things only count or have any value when it suits you ? .

[Ken Robinson]

SOR wrote (in part):

Why isnt chmod(,) called something like change(,) if the name assigned
to the function isnt important .

Or do some things only count or have any value when it suits you ? .

chmod is a UNIX/Linux command. AFAIK, PHP was first developed on a
UNIX/Linux platform, so you would expect some of the familiar commands
to be named the same.

Ken

[SOR]

<comp.lang.ph p , Ken Robinson , ke******@rbnsn. com>
<11************ **********@g43g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>
<22 Jul 2005 10:59:25 -0700>

Why isnt chmod(,) called something like change(,) if the name assigned
to the function isnt important .

Or do some things only count or have any value when it suits you ? .

chmod is a UNIX/Linux command. AFAIK, PHP was first developed on a
UNIX/Linux platform, so you would expect some of the familiar commands
to be named the same.

What a croc of shit .

PHP has been getting developed for how many years ? .

Is putting or adding in something like webpage() beneath them or summit
and isnt part of php supposed to be about the ease of use .

What do you think the chances are that a newbie will type in headers if
they want to find out how to goto a new webpage .

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID:
<MP************ ************@no-cancel.newsread er.com> from SOR contained
the following:

What do you think the chances are that a newbie will type in headers if
they want to find out how to goto a new webpage .

It's a difficult one. People who are used to pointy clicky environments
(I'm not just talking about you - I see this with many of my students)
have got used to a lot of hand holding. PHP on the other hand is a bit
geeky and developed by and for people who want full control of how
things work. I'm sure you'd be even more frustrated by ASP.NET

But they can take things too far. For instance, look up 'delete' in the
manual.
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[Jerry Stuckle]

SOR wrote:

<comp.lang.ph p , Ken Robinson , ke******@rbnsn. com>
<11************ **********@g43g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>
<22 Jul 2005 10:59:25 -0700>

Why isnt chmod(,) called something like change(,) if the name assigned
to the function isnt important .

Or do some things only count or have any value when it suits you ? .

chmod is a UNIX/Linux command. AFAIK, PHP was first developed on a
UNIX/Linux platform, so you would expect some of the familiar commands
to be named the same.

What a croc of shit .

PHP has been getting developed for how many years ? .

Is putting or adding in something like webpage() beneath them or summit
and isnt part of php supposed to be about the ease of use .

What do you think the chances are that a newbie will type in headers if
they want to find out how to goto a new webpage .

I started learning PHP a couple of years ago. It was somewhere around my 18th
or 20th language - I've been programming for close to 40 years, and have
forgotten more languages than I remember.

Even without a Unix background I found PHP quite easy to learn. Like any
language you need to learn the operators, built-in function names and the like.
But it's close enough to C, C++ and Java that I had no real trouble at all.

And yes, I found header() quite easily in the documentation. But I guess that's
because I was already familiar with HTML headers.

As for why chmod() isn't called change() - if you just used change(), what would
you be changing?

Spend a few hours, learn the functions - just like any other language.

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