Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty and open_basedir

I'm using 2.3.1... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monte Ohrt" <monte@ispi.net> To: <garland_foster@salutia.com> Cc: "Smarty Dev" <smarty-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: 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> > > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >