Cannot open file

[rahulthathoo]

Hi
I have my home directory on my departments server. Somehow I am not
able to write to a file using a php code,
$myFile = "trial3.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, "a+") or die("can't open file");

Instead of a+ if i use r or w or anything, it does not work. Could this
be a permission thing? The entire directory had a 777 permission and
even i after i created a file and chmod'ed 777 to it, the code couldnt
open it. What could be the matter? It doesnt go away if i change it to
'w' or 'w+' or 'r' or 'r+'.

Rahul

[rahulthathoo]

Also I wanted to add that if i write a perl script to write to a file,
it does it for me. But some how that is not possible in php. I gave
write permissions to all the php files and all the text files.

Rahul
rahulthathoo wrote:

Hi
I have my home directory on my departments server. Somehow I am not
able to write to a file using a php code,
$myFile = "trial3.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, "a+") or die("can't open file");

Instead of a+ if i use r or w or anything, it does not work. Could this
be a permission thing? The entire directory had a 777 permission and
even i after i created a file and chmod'ed 777 to it, the code couldnt
open it. What could be the matter? It doesnt go away if i change it to
'w' or 'w+' or 'r' or 'r+'.

Rahul

[naixn]

rahulthathoo wrote :

Also I wanted to add that if i write a perl script to write to a file,
it does it for me. But some how that is not possible in php. I gave
write permissions to all the php files and all the text files.

Rahul
rahulthathoo wrote:

>Hi
I have my home directory on my departments server. Somehow I am not
able to write to a file using a php code,
$myFile = "trial3.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, "a+") or die("can't open file");

Instead of a+ if i use r or w or anything, it does not work. Could this
be a permission thing? The entire directory had a 777 permission and
even i after i created a file and chmod'ed 777 to it, the code couldnt
open it. What could be the matter? It doesnt go away if i change it to
'w' or 'w+' or 'r' or 'r+'.

Rahul

Did you try running your PHP script in a shell, instead of in a browser?

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Naixn
http://fma-fr.net

[rahulthathoo]

No i opened up the php script in the browser. how do i parse it in the
shell?
rahul

naixn wrote:

rahulthathoo wrote :

Also I wanted to add that if i write a perl script to write to a file,
it does it for me. But some how that is not possible in php. I gave
write permissions to all the php files and all the text files.

Rahul
rahulthathoo wrote:

Hi
I have my home directory on my departments server. Somehow I am not
able to write to a file using a php code,
$myFile = "trial3.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, "a+") or die("can't open file");

Instead of a+ if i use r or w or anything, it does not work. Could this
be a permission thing? The entire directory had a 777 permission and
even i after i created a file and chmod'ed 777 to it, the code couldnt
open it. What could be the matter? It doesnt go away if i change it to
'w' or 'w+' or 'r' or 'r+'.

Rahul

Did you try running your PHP script in a shell, instead of in a browser?

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Naixn
http://fma-fr.net

[naixn]

rahulthathoo wrote :

No i opened up the php script in the browser. how do i parse it in the
shell?

Symply type :
$php your_file.php

( '$>' being the shell prompt, in case of )

Not too hard, eh? :)

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Naixn
http://fma-fr.net

[rahulthathoo]

Alright it works in the shell, but now when i open the url in the
browser. What could be wrong?

Rahul

naixn wrote:

rahulthathoo wrote :

No i opened up the php script in the browser. how do i parse it in the
shell?

Symply type :
$php your_file.php

( '$>' being the shell prompt, in case of )

Not too hard, eh? :)

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http://fma-fr.net

[rahulthathoo]

I meant not* - it doesnt write the file when i open the url in the
browser

Rahul
rahulthathoo wrote:

Alright it works in the shell, but now when i open the url in the
browser. What could be wrong?

Rahul

naixn wrote:

rahulthathoo wrote :

No i opened up the php script in the browser. how do i parse it in the
shell?
>

Symply type :
$php your_file.php

( '$>' being the shell prompt, in case of )

Not too hard, eh? :)

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Naixn
http://fma-fr.net