how to handle txt files with ftp ?

[graziano]

Hi

on my hosting account php run as nobody , and since my user is "myhost"
I have no poissibility to chmod a file which is 644 , or no possibility to
fopen with write option , a files which has 644 permission.

OK , now I don't want leave the txt file always to 777 .

So is there any way to modify the txt file using php ftp functions available in php 4.x ?.

On details , my file below works only if users.db has been set to 777 .
I don't want this file always to be set to 777 , so is there any way to use below code with php ftp functions and leaving the file to 644 ?

$data_file = "users.db"; 


$data = file($data_file); 
$count = count($data); 
$fdata = fopen($data_file, 'w'); 

if ($fdata) { 
  for ($x = 0; $x < $count; $x++) 
  { 
     if (!empty($data[$x])) 
     { 

   if ( ereg($account,$data[$x]) && ereg($username,$data[$x])  )
{
       $data[$x] = str_replace($name, $new_name, $data[$x]); 
       echo " user Changed!";
}

 } 

 fwrite($fdata, $data[$x]); 


  } 
  fclose($fdata); 

I tried to use

 $fdata = fopen("ftp://myuser:[e-mail]/users.db", 'w'); 

instead of

$fdata = fopen($data_file, 'w'); 

But I receive this error , failed to open stream: FTP server reports 213 9320

Anyone have a solution ?

Thank you

[TF_TheMoon]

When you say PHP runs as nobody, do you mean your webserver?

If the webserver user has access to the file (either from the file ownership or group permission) you should be able to use PHP to access the file without having world write on.

Have you trying making PHP run a chown() and chgrp() to set those to something like apacher as the owner and your users group as the group with a chmod of 774

[graziano]

on my host , apache runs php scripts such as nobody/nobody but all my scripts uploaded using ftp client are myhost / myhost , so when i try to change chmod it doesn't work .
Now I try with chown and chgrp...

[graziano]

I received this

chown(): Operation not permitted
chgrp(): Operation not permitted

only solution seems to be using ftp . Anyone was able to do that ?

[graziano]

anyone can help me please ?

[samudasu]

Use ftp to chmod the file. You can do it using an ftp client or by running a php script.

In the php manual there's an example using php4.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-site.php

[graziano]

the example you referred WORKS

T H A N K Y O U !!!!!

(I am searching a solution from days!)