permission denied

Okami

I have read some of the post about granting permission but I am still confussed.

I am running apache for windows and try to access a folder with text files from a php script. I continually get permission denied error and do not know how to fix this.

Can any one help.

suntra

Would it be possible to see your code ?

Okami

This is the function I am using to generate a random password.

The files I nees to acces are located in the dic/words/ folder.

function get_random_word($min_length, $max_length)
{
$word = "";
$dictionary = ("dict/words/");
$fp = fopen($dictionary, "r");
$size = filesize($dictionary);

	// go to random location in dictionary
	srand ((double) microtime() * 100000);
	$rand_location = rand(0, $size);
	fseek($fp, $rand_location);

	// get the next whole word of the right length in file
	while(strlen($word)< $min_length || strlen($word)>$max_length)
	{
		if(feof($fp))
			fseek($fp, 0); // if at end go to start
		$word = fgets($fp, 80); // skip first word
		$word = fgets($fp, 80); // potential password
	};
	$eord = trim($word); 
	return $word;

superwormy

You can't fopen() a directory, you need to use opendir()

www.php.net/fopen
open a file or url

www.php.net/opendir
open a directory handle

suntra

Ah ! You're trying to open a directory with fope()... You just can't do that !

If you want to get all the files located in a folder, see opendir() and readdir().

Okami

I made some change to my code to open a single file.

function get_random_word($min_length, $max_length)
{
$word = "";
$dictionary = ("dict/words/american.2");
$fp = fopen($dictionary, "r");
$size = filesize($dictionary);

	// go to random location in dictionary
	srand ((double) microtime() * 100000);
	$rand_location = rand(0, $size);
	fseek($fp, $rand_location);

	// get the next whole word of the right length in file
	while(strlen($word)< $min_length || strlen($word)>$max_length)
	{
		if(feof($fp))
			fseek($fp, 0); // if at end go to start
		$word = fgets($fp, 80); // skip first word
		$word = fgets($fp, 80); // potential password
	};
	$word = trim($word); 
	return $word;
}

How can I change this so that it opens a random file in the directory "words".

superwormy

To re-iterate was has already been said TWICE.

See the opendir() and readdir() functions to OPEN A DIRECTORY AND GET A LIST OF FILES.

www.php.net/opendir
www.php.net/readdir

If you need help selecting a random one from the list, you should look at putting the filenames into an array and choosing a random one, array_rand() perhaps.