RE: [PHP] PHP unlink Permission Error

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:49 -0500, Alice Wei wrote: > > > > > Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP unlink Permission Error > > From: ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk > > To: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu > > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:50:31 +0000 > > > > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:33 -0500, Alice Wei wrote: > > > Hi, Ashley: > > > > > > Sorry. To answer the question from your previous entry, it looks > > > like that my permission could be set and changed for the folder, > but > > > when I do it on the "file", I only get 0666. I have the latest > code on > > > another entry. > > > > > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > > > > Alice > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Alice Wei > > > > > > Indiana University, Master of Information Science > > > > > > Application Programmer > > > ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. > > > 420 N. Walnut St. > > > Bloomington, IN 47404 > > > > > > 812-330-6644 (office) > > > 812-219-5708 (mobile) > > > > > > Alice.Wei@procurecenters.com(email) > > > http://www.procurecenters.com/index.php (web) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP unlink Permission Error > > > From: ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > To: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu > > > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > > > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:36:36 +0000 > > > > > > <snip/> > > > > > > No, we tend to bottom-post on this list. It's just how we roll... > > > > > > > > > Ash > > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search Try it now! > > > > The user that your web server is running under (I'm guessing apache > of > > wwwrun) , does this have permission to write to the file. If not, it > > won't be able to set the permissions for it. You may need to exec > out a > > sudo command to do it, but I wouldn't recommend this. > > > > If you need PHP to be able to delete the file, what put it there in > the > > first place? > > > > > > Ash > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > What I am trying to do here is that a user would be pushing a button > so that the data entries would generate an outfile. The only issue is > that the lines would be appended in the file, (I have no issues with > this part writing to the file, no permission errors, etc). Therefore, > before the outfile is generated, I need to have the prexisting outfile > removed and recreated to be written to so that it always stays a new > file for use. > > This is why this script as you have seen is as it is so that I can > constantly check if the file exists, and generate a new file if there > is. > In this case, is there something I could do? > > > Thanks in advance. > > Alice > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day > trial! Learn more! If your script is writing to the file, and the directory has 777 permissions, then there should be no trouble deleting the file. If that's still a problem, why not each time the file needs to be created anew, open the file with a w flag, which will open it for writing, and will try to create the file if it doesn't already exist, so you wouldn't ever need to delete it at all. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk