Re: spreadsheet_excel_writer -- problem using fseek.

Hi Stefan, thanks for answering. Finally i found the problem. The OLE package --which is required by Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-- uses tempnam() to create some temporary files. From the PHP manual: string tempnam ( string dir, string prefix) Creates a file with a unique filename in the specified directory. If the directory does not exist, tempnam() may generate a file in the system's temporary directory, and return the name of that. Since this function was called without using a directory path, php atempts to create the file at the systems default temp directory. As I am in a shared host, there was an error due to php's safemode. I hacked the code and called tempname() using a directory created by my own... and it worked! This was kind of difficult to find as I got the error after removing an '@' before a function call to fopen. I am pretty sure very few people will run through the same problem but I wanted to post this behaivior in case someone cares. Thanks, Andrés. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> To: <pear-general@lists.php.net> Cc: "Andrés Felipe Hernández" <andres@alleati.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [PEAR] spreadsheet_excel_writer -- problem using fseek. > On 8 Oct 2003 at 13:45, Andrés Felipe Hernández wrote: > > > Hi, I am trying to use spread spreadsheet_excel_writer but i am > > getting the following warning: > > > > Warning: fseek(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle > > resource in home/virtual/site474/.../OLE/PPS.php on line 154 > > > > The thing is the package is not installed by the hosting, so i > > uploaded the source to the folder where the script is. It seems like > > the package tries to write all the content of the excel file to a temp > > file, and since this is a shared hosting, the actual path to the temp > > file might be broken (i think this have to do with safemode). > > > > So, my question is, does anybody of you knows how could i change the > > source so that i can point the temp file to a valid path?... It is > > very unlikely that the hosting will install the packages for me. > > > > I am still taking a look at the source codes but any help would be > > greatly appreciated. > > Or could it be that user-rights are a problem for you? Some "crazy" > hosters give you ftpaccess under your username but they run Apache > and all PHP-scripts as wwwrun, which only has read-permissions on > your ftp-directory. But this is mainly a question of the wrong hoster > :-)) > > Stefan > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php