Question about fopen

ScottG · November 24th, 2004, 01:09 PM

First off, thank you for hosting this wonderful forum. I've just found this site, and it was bookmarked immediately. You rule!

Admittedly, I am very new to php (which is why i'm in the beginners forum) so this might be something real easy I'm missing. Anyway, I'm trying to get a file to open using fopen only it's not working. The code I've tried is:

Code:

$op = fopen("./text.txt", "w+");
  if(!$op) die ("Cannot open file");

I always get the error. I've tried using fully qualifed paths too, as well as a fully qualified url as a path, nothing seems to work. What are some reasons that fopen wouldn't open a file?

Snib · November 24th, 2004, 03:10 PM

Hey there,

What operating system are you running on? I suggest you read Rich's FAQ on setting file permissions. It's located in the PHP FAQ forum.

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ScottG · November 24th, 2004, 03:24 PM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Snib
What operating system are you running on?

The server is UNIX, but the machine I'm actually doing the coding on is a windows box. I'm on my way to that faq now. Thanks.

-Scott

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ScottG · November 24th, 2004, 03:56 PM

well, I checked it out, and I think I must be doing something wrong. The man entry for chown on my system says I should use this syntax: chown -R username[:www] file, but I keep getting errors. If I specify a filename, or even just *.php, it tells me "No match". If I just use a wildcard, I get "Unknown user ID (first filename or dir in list)."

So, I tried setting everything to 777 (not very desireable) and that didn't work either. I was able to set the permissions, but the file still doesn't open. I also tried the first suggestion about files on my networked windows box, but no dice there either. Is it possible that there's some server restriction preventing the usage of fopen? If so, would a phpinfo() tell me?

Thanks again for looking at this. You are the first person to even answer the question on any forum I've been to.

-Scott

Edit: I found this... allow_url_fopen is set to 1. Dunno if that's what I'm looking for or not.

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ScottG · November 24th, 2004, 04:14 PM

Okay, I was reading the entry for fopen over at zend.com, and they say that if safe_mode is set on the server, then I could be subject to "more restrictions". They don't say what those restrictions are, but I suspect this is where my problem lies.