Posted by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug on 07/27/07 21:32

On 2007-07-27, davidkruger@techie.com wrote:
> On Jul 27, 12:00 pm, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <han...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 ...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ...
>>
>> 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
> work.

I don't understand how that can make any difference, but I tested with
"wb" and it made no difference - try for yourself:
http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/?mode=wb

Hans

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