Re: spreadsheet_excel_writer -- problem using fseek.

On 8 Oct 2003 at 16:51, Andrés Felipe Hernández wrote: > 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. Usual questions that's been mentioned several times on the list: - Could @ be avoided here? - Could a switch be added to be able to specify a temp-dir? - How could we improve that package? Now that you've digged through it, maybe you could come up with a suggestion and mail the maintainer? It's been mentioned several times that @ should where possible be avoided in packages in favor of real error-handling. Stefan PS: But you should also notify your hoster to change his temp-dir- setting to something appropriate. > ----- 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