[RESOLVED] email.xml exists but I can't see it

[ppowell]

I am using the following to create "email.xml":

@unlink("$userPath/xml/email.xml"); // FOR SOME REASON IT DOES NOT CLEAR OUT CONTENT USING 'w' OPTION
			if (!file_put_contents("$userPath/xml/email.xml", $contents, 'w')) $isSuccessful = false;
			if ($isSuccessful) chmod("$userPath/xml/email.xml", 0700);
			if ($isSuccessful) chown("$userPath/xml/email.xml", 'me');
			if ($isSuccessful) $msg = exec("chown me:users \"$userPath/xml/email.xml\"");
			if ($msg) print_r($msg);

I can verify that email.xml exists later on by doing this:

 echo file_get_contents("$userPath/xml/email.xml"); 

And I see the XML file, but whenever I telnet, use FTP, etc., I never see the file listed, even though I am clearly looking at the correct directory, even looking at other directories, but I can't ever find it.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

[NogDog]

Probably the only "person" who can see it is the webserver user account under which the webserver runs PHP. You have given read/write/execute permission only to the file owner via the chmod() function. The problem is, though, that only the root/super-user account can do a chown, so you cannot see it via any of your personal accounts. (You could verify this by checking the return value of your chown() function: I suspect it will be 'false'.)

[ppowell]

No explanation for this one but this afternoon email.xml appears and I made no changes to the code.

Wow.