What's wrong with this php????

Anon

This is the input.html file:

And this is the generate_html_paragraph.php file:

<?php

$fp = fopen ("new.html", "w");
fputs ($fp, "<body>\n");
fputs ($fp, "$newParagraph\n");
fputs ($fp, "</body>\n");
fclose ($fp);

The link is http://birme.jpl.nu/~bluecorr/carmen/input.html

What am I doing wrong???

edwardsbc

Usually the web server user (nobody on most Linux systems) doesn't have write ("w") permissions in the file system.

What exactly is the problem you are encountering? What are you trying to do?

Anon

that is exactly the problem:
Warning: fopen("new.html","w") - Permission denied in /mnt/home/bluecorr/public_html/carmen/generate_html_paragraph.php on line 3

.... it doesn't have permission to write to the file, and thusly the fputs will not work either.

i think for webserver to have permission to write to a file, you must chmod o+rwx filename

polito

If you're getting errors, make sure of two things.. you need write permission not only on the actual file, but also on the DIRECTORY that the file is located in.

If the webserver can't write to the directory, then it can't edit any files in there. So you need to do something like..

chmod a+w thefolder/
chmod a+w thefolder/thefile.html

That should fix it.

Hope that helps...