Warning: Supplied argument is not a vali

Anon

$result = "";
fputs ($fp, $data);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$result .= fgets($fp, 128);
}

The code above generates the following error when executed on my RH 7.2/Apache server.

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource

yendor

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource

This means PHP cannot open the file you are trying to read from and write to.

You should have a line in your code similar to this.

$fp = fopen("FILENAME","r+");

PHP is telling you that $fp(FILENAME) is not being opened. Check you file permissions, and make sure your path is correct.

Hope this helps,

Rodney

Anon

Are you certain the the file is assigned to the file pointer correctly and that the file permissions are set correctly? Here is code that I executed based on your post:

<?php
$fp = fopen("test.txt","a+");
$data = "testing";
$result = "";
fputs ($fp, $data);
rewind ($fp);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$result .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose ($fp);
?>

Anon

do {
$errno = 0;
$fp = @fsockopen(($this->get_proxy() ? $this->get_proxy_server() : $this->get_server()), ($this->get_proxy() ? $this->get_proxy_port() : 80), $errno, $errstr, 30);
if ($errno) {
$this->debug("Retrying Failed POST (".$errno."): ".$errstr);
sleep(1);
}
} while($errno);

I'm totally new to PHP but to me it looks like it opens a socket instead of a file.

This problems occurs in "SMS WEB SENDER 0.1" from http://www.k1m.com/

And i Get the same problem with jm_sms by James McGlinn -
http://james.mcglinn.org/jm_sms/ which the SMS WEB SENDER is based on.

Anon

Based on the conclusion that it is socket handling and not filehandling i presume that filepermissions doesn't matter?

Any1 if it was a file that were opened. What permission should it have? (For future reference)

Anon

You are correct. The script is opening a socket, but look at the '@' preceding the fsockopen command. That suppresses all error messages resulting from the command, so no error is returned. Bet if you take that out of there, you will find that you are not creating a socket connection in the $fp variable.

Anon

The general rule of thumb that I employ when dealing with file permissions is this: only give the bare minimum permissions needed. If the user only needs to have 'execute' permissions on a file, don't give them 'read' and 'write' as well.

Granted, my methodology often causes re-assigning file permissions repeatedly as my coding evolves, but I feel very secure that no one is able to perform activities that I do not wish.

So, in answer to your question, it really depends on who is going to be executing your script, and how they are going to execute it. I can't really state for you what permission to assign, as I don't fully understand your situation.

Anon

If you are new to PHP then, unless you've programmed it frequently, I would reccommend starting with code that is not object oriented. If you've inherited someone else's code that can be tough luck. However, you are right this does attempt to open a socket. Without the include files it is tough to determine exactly what the problem is.