Permission denied using fopen()?

[m_henry]

Why would I be getting this error?

Warning: fopen("test.php","w+") - Permission denied in /home/test/testing.com/htdocs/TEST/test_it.php on line 19
Could not open file for writing.

[craigh]

you probably don't have appropriate permissions to write a file to that directory. Check out using CHMOD command (at the command line) to modify your permissions.

[m_henry]

Yup I got it. It was trickle down effect but I got it, thanks.