writing into a text file

Anon

Hallo to all coders..

I´ve got a problem to write data from
php page into a text file. The files are located on a linuxserver. The server always gets me an errormessage. How can I solve this problem.

Errormessage:

Warning: fopen("ug05data.txt","a") - Permission denied in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/umweltteam/katalog/ug05.php on line 5

create_test2

<body>
Bitte geben Sie Ihre Adresse ein:
<form action = "ug05.php" method = "post">
<input size="20" name="nn"> Nachname<p>
<input size="20" name="vn"> Vorname<p>
<input size="20" name="sr">
<input size="10" name="hn"> Straße und Hausnummer<p>
<input size="10" name="pz">
<input size="20" name="st"> PLZ und Stadt<p>
<input type="submit" value="Senden">
<input type="reset">
</form>
</body>

ug05.php

<body>

<?php
$fp = fopen("ug05data.txt","a"); # Line 5!!!
if ($fp)
{
flock($fp,2);
$nl = chr(13) . chr(10);
fputs ($fp, "$nn;$vn;$sr;$hn;$pz;$st$nl");
echo "Vielen Dank, $vn $nn<p>";
echo "Ihre Angaben wurden gespeichert<p>";
flock($fp,3);
fclose($fp);
}
else
echo "Datei konnte nicht zum Schreiben geöffnet werden<p>";
?>
Zurück zur <a href="create_test2.php">Eingabe</a>
</body>

Anon

Try changing file owner to Apache (if you'r using Apache). Thats what i did, maybe not the rigth thing, byt it worked for me.

matto

in addition to that:
when you have something written to a file from a script, the user who does it is the webserver. its name may be apache, www, wwwrun ... as whatever your admin has configured it.
this user needs to have write permission for the directory and the file.

if you can't change it, contact your admin.

Anon

of course you can change your directiries permissions. u must open write permission to the group. your directories permissions must be drwxrwxr-x

you can change it by all popular ftp programs. cute_ftp one of them..

Anon

I think it should look like this:

$fp = fopen("/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/umweltteam/katalog/ug05data.txt","a");

If that doesn't work try using that and try chmod'ing it 666 (read and write for all 3 groups, that should be it 😛)