Can never write to file.

[Kudose]

Here is the problem: No matter what I cannot write to this file. All permissions are set to 777 or 755 so it isnt the issue. All variables register and containt the proper information so that isnt the issue either. But I always get the error that I cannot write to my file and it displays the correct file to be written too.

Thanks in advance to whoever can help!

$file_url = $site_url."/view_product.php?product=".$product;
		$file_url = str_replace(" ", "%20", $file_url);
		$file = fopen($file_url, "r");
		if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
    	 $r = fread($file, 800000);
			} else {
		 $r = file_get_contents($file_url);
			}
		$page_name .= ".php";
		$handle = $site_dir."/promo/".$page_name;
		if (!file_exists($site_dir."/promo")) { if(!mkdir($site_dir."/promo", 0777)){ echo "Could not make new directory."; } }
		if (!$open = fopen($handle, "a")) { echo "Cannot open file"; }
		if (!fwrite($open, $r)) { echo "Cannot write to file ".$handle."<br>"; }

[rebelo]

Are you running with safe_mode on, perhaps? Even a chmod 777 file would not be writable in safe mode if it was owned by another user than the user apache runs as (usually "nobody").

[Kudose]

Safe mode is off, but thanks for your suggestion.

Revised code. Top one works, second ones doesn't. I need the second one to work.

$site_dir = "/home/xxx/public_html/xxx";
$page_name = "Berber";
		$page_name = strip_tags($page_name);
		$page_name = stripslashes($page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace(" ", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = htmlspecialchars($page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace("'", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace("&", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace(""", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = strtolower($page_name);
$file_url = "http://xxx.com/xxx/view_product.php?product=555";
		$file_url = str_replace(" ", "%20", $file_url);
		$file = fopen($file_url, "r");
		if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
    	 $r = fread($file, 800000);
			} else {
		 $r = file_get_contents($file_url);
			}
		$page_name .= ".php";
		$handle = $site_dir."/promo/".$page_name;
		if (!file_exists($site_dir."/promo")) { if(!mkdir($site_dir."/promo", 0777)){ echo "Could not make new directory."; } }
		if (!$open = fopen($handle, "a")) { echo "Cannot open file"; }
		if (!fwrite($open, $r)) { echo "Cannot write to file ".$handle."<br>"; }

This is the one I need to work

$page_name = $title;
		$page_name = strip_tags($page_name);
		$page_name = stripslashes($page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace(" ", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = htmlspecialchars($page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace("'", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace("&", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = str_replace(""", "", $page_name);
		$page_name = strtolower($page_name);
		$page_name .= ".php";
		//finished clean up and file naming
		if (!file_exists($site_dir."/promo")) { if(!mkdir($site_dir."/promo", 0777)){ echo "Could not make new directory."; } }
		//done making dir if it didnt exsist
		$file_url = $site_url."/view_product.php?product=".$product;
		$file_url = str_replace(" ", "%20", $file_url);
		//replace all url spaces
		$file = fopen($file_url, "r");
		if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
    	 $read = fread($file, 800000);
			} else {
		 $read = file_get_contents($file_url);
			}	
		//read our to be new file's content
		$handle = $site_dir."/promo/".$page_name;
		if(!chmod($handle, 0755)){ echo "Cannot change permission on file."; }	
		if (!$open = fopen($handle, "a")) { echo "Cannot open file"; }
		if (!fwrite($open, $read)) { echo "Cannot write to file ".$handle."<br>"; }