Posted by davidkruger on 07/27/07 18:10

On Jul 27, 12:19 pm, davidkru...@techie.com wrote:
> On Jul 27, 12:00 pm, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <han...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to write to a file in the current directory - no remote
> > files. The subject says it all - I can add that both the directory
> > and the file is wordwritable. This happens on a (quite good) free
> > hoster in Norway which doesn't use safe mode, running PHP 5.1.6 as the
> > PHP info below shows ...
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> > Test it at:http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/?mode=w(write- fails)http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/?mode=a(append- ok)http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/p.php-PHP infohttp://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/fopen-test.phps-source code of test script.
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> > I have searched the web and usenet, but not found this problem
> > mentioned before. I do realize that I can work around the problem by
> > truncating the file first and then appending to the empty file - but
> > that is ugly as ...
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> > Regards, Hans
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> Just curious if instead of sending fopen w for the mode using wb? I
> am not sure if that will make any difference or not, but might make it
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If you set the permissions on the folder you are attempting to save to
to chmod 707 you should be able to write the file.

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