[PHP] permission failure with fopen

Hi All, I get strange permission problems with fopen() ... $directory = somedir; $filename = $directory . /somefile.txt; $handle = fopen($filename, w);// gives: failed to open stream: Permission denied but, - fileperms($directory) gives: 0777 and is_writable($directory) gives writable -

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

Hi All, I get strange permission problems with fopen() ... $directory = somedir; $filename = $directory . /somefile.txt; $handle = fopen($filename, w);// gives: failed to open stream: Permission denied but, - fileperms($directory) gives: 0777 and is_writable($directory) gives writable

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess that making somefile.txt with PHP is not possible for Win XP Er, no. But the permissions system on Windows is greatly different to Unix. You could make it (and the containing directory) world writeable, and work

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

I'm testing on Windows XP SP2 with PHP 5.2.0 That may be your problem. You may want to try a Unix based OS. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated November 1st) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 14:27 +0200, Thodoris wrote: I'm testing on Windows XP SP2 with PHP 5.2.0 As far as I remember, you need to pass the b parameter to Windows as well on fopen(), so you would do an fopen(/path/to/file,wb); --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

So I guess that making somefile.txt with PHP is not possible for Win XP Er, no. But the permissions system on Windows is greatly different to Unix. You could make it (and the containing directory) world writeable, and work backwards from there (ie making it not so world writeable). -- Richard

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

Andrew Ballard a écrit : Once you identify the account, it needs to have Modify (which, for files, includes Read Execute, Read, and Write) permission on the file being edited. If the file does not already exist, then that account needs to have Modify (which, for folders, includes Read

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen I'm testing on Windows XP SP2 with PHP 5.2.0 That may be your problem. You may want to try a Unix based OS. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

] permission failure with fopen On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 14:27 +0200, Thodoris wrote: I'm testing on Windows XP SP2 with PHP 5.2.0 As far as I remember, you need to pass the b parameter to Windows as well on fopen(), so you would do an fopen(/path/to/file,wb); --Paul