[paulj000]

Hi, I'm very new to PHP.

I got lucky on the first 2 servers I made this editor app for and now I can't get it to work properly on 2 others. I am trying to fopen any local files on the servers I maintain with my own "editor" but I get the following errors. I would rather not have to manually chmod every directory and file by hand just to make it work! BTW, I chmod the entire root directory to 777 but newly uploaded files are defaulting to 644 and seem to need to be at least 646 to be "fopen"able.

"Warning: fopen(../../experience/index.html) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Permission denied in /home/shinymac/public_html/_zbox/phpeditor/save.php on line 43"

This warning comes from my "save file" page after the edits have been made and approved. Here is the code without any attempts at chown? or chmod since I do not know how to do it properly or even what an really owner is.

Code:

<?
$filename = $_POST['filename'];
$relative_filename = $_POST['relative_filename'];
$tempBak = $_POST['tempBak'];
$tempEdit = $_POST['tempEdit'];

// get contents of temporary storage file I successfully created with fopen on previous pages
$newPage = file_get_contents($tempEdit);

// $relative_filename is var containing a path to file in form of ../../news/index.php

$handle = fopen($relative_filename, 'wb'); 
fwrite($handle, $newPage);
fclose($handle);

unlink($tempEdit);
unlink($tempBak);

Thanks for your helping me with this. If you need any more info let me know!

- Paul

[Man Down]

Add this line above $handle = fopen(...

chmod ("/path/to/file/filename", 0666);

Of course you have to change the path and file name in that line of code.

If you need more assistance let me know.

[paulj000]

Actually I am having this problem earlier in my script than the code I pasted up before but it is similar in nature. When I try to create a backup file in the form of index.bak.html. The only way I know to create a file is to try to fopen it and if it doesn't exist PHP creates it for me. Here is the code I am using:

PHP Code:

// == make a temp file variable name from the name of page I wanna edit ===

$tempBak = substr_replace($relative_filename, '.bak', $ext, 0);



// ==== make said tempfile now ====

$handle = fopen($tempBak, 'wb'); 

fwrite($handle, $page);

fclose($handle); 

I am told this error:
Warning: fopen(../../index.bak.html) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Permission denied in /home/domain/public_html/test/phpeditor/edit.php on line 62

Apparently I cannot chmod yet or chown or touch since the file doesn't exist at this point.

Thanks for replying - Paul

[Steven]

maybe try to chmod the folder and file in phpeditor directory?