Difficulty Writing to a File

[chrisw50]

Hi,
Can anyone help please? I have a script that writes some text to a file, it works fine on one server, but does not work on another.

the code that is failing looks like this:

$fp = fopen($tagfile,"w") or die("couldn't open file");
fwrite($fp,$edited);

and it fails with the following message:

Warning: fopen(content.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in (removed url) on line 5
couldn't open file

The server it is failing on is running php version 4.3.11 under Free BSD 4.7

I am guessing this is something to do with file permissions as the code works perfectly on the other server? But how do I go about fixing it to get my script to run?

Thanks

[bodzan]

...chmoding the file to 777 via FTP client or within you code with [man]chmod()[/man] where you can create a php file that does only this with:

<?php
$file = "content.php";
chmod($file, 0777);
?>

[chrisw50]

Hi Bodzan,
The code didn't work, it looks like the server wouldn't let me do a chmod either, but knowing it could be done via ftp was really helpful. I managed to find the option in my ftp client to get it working. Thanks for your help.