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($filename);
if (is_writable($filename))
$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($filename);
if (is_writable($filename))
$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($filename);
if (is_writable($filename))
$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.php , Matthias Braun , ma*******@web.de>
<42***********************@newsread4.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($filename);
if (is_writable($filename))
$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.php , SOR , we*******@sparesorrepair.co.uk.INVALID>
<MP************************@no-cancel.newsreader.com>
<Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:17:10 +0100>

chmod($filename, 0766);

With regard to the webpage('filename.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.php , Ken Robinson , ke******@rbnsn.com>
<11**********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .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.newsreader.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.php , Ken Robinson , ke******@rbnsn.com>
<11**********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .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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[Ken Robinson]

SOR wrote (in part):

What a croc of shit .

PHP has been getting developed for how many years ? .
PHP just celebrated it's 10th anniversary.

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 .
I don't think ease of use was part of the design.

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 really depends on how you learn new programming languages and what
experience you've had with other languages. I seem to have an ability
to pick up new languages fairly quickly. I learned enough C in 4 days
to have my solutions to the problems given out in the 5 day class used
by the instructor and examples of very good programming. Before C I had
learned PL/1, COBOL, Fortran, Basic, and SPASM (a superset of IBM/360
Assembler).

PHP was easy for me to pick up and start using, but I am still learning
from other people in these forums. I starting learning PHP in 1999.

How did I learn. I bought books, looked at the examples, asked a lot of
questions and read the online manual. If you haven't looked at
www.php.net, you really should. There's a wealth of information and
examples in the manual.

Finally, if you don't like PHP, don't use it. There are plenty of other
web languages out there, some serverside (PERL, Python) and some
clientside (Javascript). If you want to use PHP, get used to it's
problems and pitfalls and enjoy the control it gives you in the
development of web sites.

Ken

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <T9********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

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

change_permissions() would make sense

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID: <T9********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

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

change_permissions() would make sense

Too long, for one thing. Look at the original Unix commands - all very short.
Remember, Unix was first created in the days of the 110 baud teletypes. A 300
baud modem was a luxury. 1200 baud modems cost thousands.

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[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <4o********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

change_permissions() would make sense

Too long, for one thing. Look at the original Unix commands - all very short.
Remember, Unix was first created in the days of the 110 baud teletypes. A 300
baud modem was a luxury. 1200 baud modems cost thousands.

That was then. Besides it could be an alias.

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

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[John Dunlop]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS.
hows about ye olde 'hue', just for pernicketyness, or are we
getting into a gray^H^Hey area??
Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

GO ON MY SON!!

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID: <4o********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

change_permissions() would make sense

Too long, for one thing. Look at the original Unix commands - all very short.
Remember, Unix was first created in the days of the 110 baud teletypes. A 300
baud modem was a luxury. 1200 baud modems cost thousands.

That was then. Besides it could be an alias.

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

Yep, that was then. But if you change it, millions of scripts will change.

You want to make it an alias on your system, great. But then your scripts won't
work on other people's systems.

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[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <pP********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

Yep, that was then. But if you change it, millions of scripts will change.

Huh? The word is interpreted by the browser. All I'd like is for
browsers to recognise that the USA does not actually own the Internet.
In fact it would be even better if browsers could respond to whatever
the native language.

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID: <pP********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

Yep, that was then. But if you change it, millions of scripts will change.

Huh? The word is interpreted by the browser. All I'd like is for
browsers to recognise that the USA does not actually own the Internet.
In fact it would be even better if browsers could respond to whatever
the native language.

First of all, I was taling about chmod() - not color/colour.

But as to your other point - you seem to have a chip on your shoulder. What's
the difference between color and colour? Who really cares?

Yes, I'm in the U.S. But if they had spelled it colour, I'd use it. No problem.

But in the meantime you're asking all the browser manufacturers to change their
code. You're asking anyone who ever created a script to parse HTML to change
their code. You're asking the manufacturers of HTML editors to change their code.

All because of a "u"? There are far more important things in this world than
whether it's spelled color or colour!
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[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <xu********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID: <pP********************@comcast.com> from
Jerry Stuckle contained the following:

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

Yep, that was then. But if you change it, millions of scripts will change.

Huh? The word is interpreted by the browser. All I'd like is for
browsers to recognise that the USA does not actually own the Internet.
In fact it would be even better if browsers could respond to whatever
the native language.

First of all, I was taling about chmod() - not color/colour.

Well yes, take your point that one could write one's own aliases in
PHP.
But as to your other point - you seem to have a chip on your shoulder.
Just doing my part to prevent the USA's assimilation of the 'net <g>. I
wouldn't call it a chip, but I do think it's a serious point.
What's
the difference between color and colour? Who really cares?

Yes, I'm in the U.S. But if they had spelled it colour, I'd use it. No problem.
Someone, somewhere, decided to spell it like that. Someone who didn't
know or perhaps more importantly, didn't care that other people spelled
it differently. Sure it's a small point Jerry, but a significant one.
But in the meantime you're asking all the browser manufacturers to change their
code. You're asking anyone who ever created a script to parse HTML to change
their code. You're asking the manufacturers of HTML editors to change their code.
No I'm not. I'm saying that with a little more thought and
consideration the browsers could have responded equally well to either
spelling. I'm saying that with a little more thought the markup could
have been in any language.
All because of a "u"? There are far more important things in this world than
whether it's spelled color or colour!

I think you are focussing on the example and not seeing the bigger
picture.

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[SOR]

<comp.lang.php , Jerry Stuckle , js*******@attglobal.net>
<xu********************@comcast.com>
<Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:57:37 -0500>

But as to your other point - you seem to have a chip on your shoulder.

Hes english - he has a excuse .

[Geoff Berrow]

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

But as to your other point - you seem to have a chip on your shoulder.

Hes english - he has a excuse .

and SOR's a well balanced Scot - he has a chip on both shoulders.

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[SOR]

<comp.lang.php , Geoff Berrow , bl******@ckdog.co.uk>
<6b********************************@4ax.com>
<Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:52:53 +0100>

But as to your other point - you seem to have a chip on your shoulder.

Hes english - he has a excuse .

and SOR's a well balanced Scot - he has a chip on both shoulders.

LOL :-)

[Alexey Kulentsov]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

I could never understand why colour could not be an alias for color in
HTML and CSS. Especially since HTML is a Brit idea <g>

Must be only one way to do something.

# and // together is bad.
if(){} and IF ENDIF together is bad.
echo and print together is bad.
and so on.