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@NogDogJan 18.2005 — #Might simply be a file permission problem. When you run a PHP page via the web server, it is normally run under a unique user ID, [i]not[/i] your user ID. Therefore, in order for your PHP script to update an existing file, you need to ensure that either the file is owned by the web user account, or that it has the necessary permissions for others to write to it.
simple textarea file-edit
Hi there…
I was looking (since I’m definately an early beginner in PHP) for a simple script to edit a text-file online, using a textarea. I found some php-scripts, none worked… here’s an example of what I tried:
<?php
if ($submit) {
$fp = fopen(“data.txt”, “w”);
fwrite($fp, stripslashes($newdata));
fclose($fp);
}
$fp = fopen(“data.txt”, “r”);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$data .= fgets($fp, 4096);
}
fclose($fp);
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Edit</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action=”<? print $PHP_SELF; ?>” method=”post”>
<textarea name=”newdata” rows=”50″ cols=”100″>
<?
print $data;
?>
</textarea>
<br>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Save”>
</form>
</body>
</html>
It didn’t return an error, but simply reloaded data.txt, doing nothing like saving the data at all. Interestingly I experienced the same with a different script. The script is placed in protected directory, together with some scripts to upload files, also written in php. Uploading works just fine. I cannot figure out why it does not work. As said: me noob *grunt
I would gladly accept any advice or code that’ll do the job. Can’t be that complicated… Thanks.
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@NogDogJan 18.2005 — #Might simply be a file permission problem. When you run a PHP page via the web server, it is normally run under a unique user ID, [i]not[/i] your user ID. Therefore, in order for your PHP script to update an existing file, you need to ensure that either the file is owned by the web user account, or that it has the necessary permissions for others to write to it.