Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty and open_basedir

What version of Smarty are you using? I thought this was fixed in 2.3.1. On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 07:51, garland_foster@salutia.com wrote: > Hi people, > > A user was having a problem with our application, Smarty was complaining > about ot being able to write "%4386/%836823/foo.tpl.php" (Problem writing...) > I debugged and found that the directories where not being created at > _write_file by the _create_dirs_structure (or so..) function. > Why? Because the hosting company had open_basedir configured to "." so > Smarty wasn't finding a match. > My questions are: > > a)Why does Smarty care about open_basedir isn't it a PHP-level problem? > I mean if other PHP applications CAN create a file/dir why do we make > Smarty fail? Our user was puzzled because all the permissions where ok and > he was able to create the file that Smarty couldn't from a stub php script. > b)Is the "." value for open_basedir a right value? Why? > c)If Smarty fails to create directories why are we getting the error when > trying to create the file for the compiled template when it is obvious > that the function will not work if the directories to-be-created weren't > created? > > If this was already discussed my sincere apologies. > > Thanks for your answers!! -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>