Re: automatically updating software

Peter VanDijck wrote... >> Security issues will prevent you from reading or writing any files that >> your PHP process doesn't have permissions for. In my experience, the only >> reliable way to do this is by using FTP using the username and password that >> the user will (presumably) give you. > > But that's scary for the user (granting some company access to your > server???). Isn't there another way? I was thinking I could keep crucial > function libraries in a database (not sure if that is possible??) and then > just update them like that, no write access hassles. Can that be done? Can you > keep your functions in a database and "include" them from there? You could use eval(), but that didn't work for me since I had mixed PHP/XHTML. -- Charles Wiltgen