Creating and writing to a file

[Anon]

hello there,
I have question regarding PHP programming.I hope you help me. Well I am using php on RH linux 7.2.My question is :How can I create a file in other users account space and read and write to that file when ever I need.Eg: My computer system has a user gst whose directory is /home/gst. Now how can I create a file and write & read to this file in that directory using PHP programming Apache server. waiting for your response.Bye & cheers.
Gautam

[Anon]

Use:
fopen('/home/gst/theFileName.txt', 'w');

You might have to set the right permissions to allow the Apache user to write to that folder.

Diego

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Why would you ever want apache to be able to write in your user's directories? that is extremely dangerous.