RE: [PHP] file permissions or something like that...

Its my understanding that 'fopen()' does nothing more than return a file handle to access a file. Keeping that in mind, if you attempt to open a file that does not exist, it will return false. Also note, that files with an HTTP URL can only be opened for reading. If you need to create a file and are on a unix system, perhaps use the exec() to run 'touch' to create the empty file first. Larry H. On Friday, January 05, 2001 10:58 AM, Jason Jacobs [SMTP:jason@factory7.com] wrote: > Hello all. I have struggled with this problem for at least a week and no > one seems to know how to fix it. > > Basically, I have a script that creates a directory when a new user signs > on. The code is below: > umask(011); > mkdir("/path/to/dir/for/$newuser", 0777); > > Without the umask above the statement, the perms that were set were 755, > even with the 777 explicitly stated (I know 777 is bad, but I'm going to > make it 755 when it all works correctly), which confused me a lot, but as > long as it works... > > So the directory is created fine with perms of 777. Then I want to create > some files, and update them as a database gets changed. The code for > creating (and editing) the file is: > if ($file = fopen ("path/to/dir/for/$newuser/index.htm", "w")){ > if (!(fwrite ($file, $htmldoc))){ > echo "unable to write to index file<br>"; > }//end if > fclose($file); > }//end if > > Each time this is run, I get the following error... > fopen("path/to/dir/for/jason/Menu.htm","w+") - No such file or directory > > 1)Isn't fopen() supposed to create the file if it doesn't already exist, and > 2)if it's a permission error, why? The same user (http on our server) that > creates the directory is writing the file, so it should have the ability to > write the file, especially since the perms are 777 on the dir. > 3)When I log into the site on my FTP program as the admin user for the site, > I can delete these folders that are created by PHP, but I can't open them to > see what's in them. That's confusing me too. > > BTW, I started using PHP a couple months ago, and all I did was jump in, so > I may be missing some pretty small things. > > Thanks for the help. > Jason > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net