#19741 [Fbk->NoF]: Path no longer works in unlink, pdf_open_file

ID: 19741 Updated by: php-bugs@lists.php.net Reported By: scott@meikohou.com -Status: Feedback +Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Apache2 related Operating System: linux 2.4.18 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: No feedback was provided for this bug for over 2 weeks, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-07 10:44:49] brad@brad-x.com CVS Snapshot had no impact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-03 19:35:45] sniper@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-03 18:39:34] scott@meikohou.com on further examination it appears only pdf_open_file($pdf, "somefile.pdf"); does not work and must be substituted with pdf_open_file($pdf, "$documentroot/somefile.pdf"); (or the smart example) i took the liberty of checking with pdf.c and it doesnt appear to be any different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-03 18:26:38] pkmail1@genion.de A smarter variant of the workaround is to use file_exists(realpath('somefile.pdf')); which works quite fine on Apache 2.0.40 Philipp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-03 14:48:06] scott@meikohou.com In old apache 1.3.26/php.4.0.6 if (file_exists("somefile.pdf")) unlink("somefile.pdf"); pdf_open_file($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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19741&edit=1