chmod 777

d99kg

To be able to write to a .data file i have to change the permissions within the unix server that I am using! Is there anyway I can do this through my code?

Here is my code:

<html>

<head>
 	<title>Write to file</title>
 	<link rel=stylesheet href=stylesheet.css>

</head>

<?php

// 1. Select everything from the table sale
// 2. Enter into a while loop
// 3. Read all values into variables
// 4. Open a text file for writing
// 5. Write information on sale to text file
// 6. Exit while loop
// 7. Close file for writing

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "d99kg", "password");
mysql_select_db("d99kg",$db);

$dbQuery="SELECT * FROM sale4";
$result = mysql_query($dbQuery,$db);

$out=fopen("fileCreateYourself.data","a") or die ("file won't open");
fwrite($out,"username,productid,name,date-bought,numbought,class\r\n");
while ($macInfo=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$productID=$macInfo["productID"];
$name=$macInfo["name"];
$dateBought=$macInfo["dateBought"];
$numBought=$macInfo["numBought"];

fwrite($out,"$productID,$name,$dateBought,$numBought\n");

}

fclose($out);

?>
<body>

    <table class=border align=center width=400 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>

    <tr><th>Processing</th></tr>

        <tr><td>

            <form action=databaseControl.php>

       	    <table width=100% cellpadding=3 cellspacing=5 border=0>

    	    <tr><td align=center>

               	    <font face=tahoma size=3 color=darkred>You have are now written recent customer transactions to

a file
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align=center>

               	    <font face=tahoma size=3 color=darkred>Thank you
		    </font>
           	    </td></tr>

       	    </table>

     	</form>

   	    </td></tr>

     </table>

Thanks for your help!

laserlight

Why cant you simply chmod from say, command line, yourself?

If you need to use PHP, there's
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

d99kg

Sorry I'm fairly new to this, where abouts do I put it in my code?

Thanks

freakonaleash

the simplist way u could do it would be to chmod the file from your ftp client

dv6cougar

Originally posted by d99kg
Sorry I'm fairly new to this, where abouts do I put it in my code?

Thanks

well your not creating that file using the above script, all your doing is adding to it. Which i think is what confused people, which is ok.

here is how to chmod a file


//CHMOD
/*******
YOU CAN ALSO REPLACE $tofile with "$DOCUMENT_ROOT" i believe it is.
*****/
$tofile = ""; //your root directory to the file you are going to be chmodding, do not add ending slash

$file = ""; //your file name

chmod "$tofile/$file, 0777";//and 0 does go there yes, 0777 meaning chmod 777

//END CH MOD


$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "d99kg", "password"); 
mysql_select_db("d99kg",$db); 

$dbQuery="SELECT * FROM sale4"; 
$result = mysql_query($dbQuery,$db); 

$out=fopen("fileCreateYourself.data","a") or die ("file won't open"); 
fwrite($out,"username,productid,name,date-bought,numbought,class\r\n"); 
while ($macInfo=mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
{ 
$productID=$macInfo["productID"]; 
$name=$macInfo["name"]; 
$dateBought=$macInfo["dateBought"]; 
$numBought=$macInfo["numBought"]; 

fwrite($out,"$productID,$name,$dateBought,$numBought\n"); 
} 

fclose($out); 

?>

and that chmod i think can go anywhere in your script
i hope that helps!

valshooter

When you are creating files by php be sure folder where you are doing this great thing is chmoded properly. Yes, 777 will work.

But with command line/ftp client of course.