Using PHP to insert contents of one file into another?

[jjfletch]

I'm hoping someone can help me out.

In an ideal world, I would just use the php script to copy one file to another location, but when I try to do that, I get permission errors. If I try to have the script chown the directory I want to copy to, I get "Operation not permitted" errors. So, now, I'm wondering if I can use php to do the following:

(1) Read contents of FileA
(2) Create a file called FileB
(3) Insert contents of FileA into FileB

I've looked at fopen, fread, fwrite, but I'm not sure if I can have two files open at once? I'm not that great with php, so if someone can help me out, that would be awesome.

[subwayman]

Yes you can have two files open at once. In fact you can have lots of files open at once. So all you need to do is open FILEA for read and FILEB for write and get to it.

However, the real cause fo your problems is the permissions for the actions you wanted to do originally. It would be much better for you to set permissions for your script so that it can copy files in the relevant directory.