#19741 [Com]: Path no longer works in unlink, pdf_open_file

From: Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:26:39 +0000
Subject: #19741 [Com]: Path no longer works in unlink, pdf_open_file
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 ID:               19741
 Comment by:       pkmail1@genion.de
 Reported By:      scott@meikohou.com
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Apache2 related
 Operating System: linux  2.4.18
 PHP Version:      4.2.3
 New Comment:

A smarter variant of the workaround is to use
file_exists(realpath('somefile.pdf'));
which works quite fine on Apache 2.0.40

Philipp


Previous Comments:
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[2002-10-03 14:48:06] scott@meikohou.com

In old apache 
1.3.26/php.4.0.6


if (file_exists("somefile.pdf")) unlink("somefile.pdf");
pdf_open_file($pdf, "somefile.pdf");

would check the current directory.
ie .. it will do these actions whereever documentroot happens to be.

now it does not do this anymore in Apache/2.0.42 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.42
OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.2.3 

in apache 2.0.42
getcwd() returns the current working directory <documentroot>

however if i do chdir (documentroot)
the first command 
if (file_exists("somefile.pdf")) unlink("somefile.pdf");
will work
but the 2nd
pdf_open_file($pdf, "somefile.pdf");
will not.

the workaround seems to be to work is to include the whole path
pdf_open_file($pdf, "$documentroot/somefile.pdf");

which appears to work .. is this a bug or a feature?



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