I believe the school does run *nix servers.
I tried changing the permissions for the directory so that everyone (and
their brother) has read write and execute permission, but I still get all the
errors. Is there any other ideas that I can try?
Christian Reiniger wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2001 07:50, you wrote:
>
> > file. In qa.php3 I have the following line which seems to create a file
> > if it does not exist:
> > $answerFile = "$questionFileName-A.txt"; Then I go along and open this
> > later with $wa=fopen("$answerFile","a");
> > In problem shooting I tried uploading a blank file with the name
> > $questionFileName-A.txt and it worked just fine after that, but that
> > will not work for my long term goals On my home computer with win98,
>
> Ok, Assuming that your school server is an *nix system I think I know the
> solution.
>
> Apparently fopen () works fine if you just append to an existing file,
> but fails if it has to create a new file. So - do you have write
> permissions for the directory you place the file in (creating a file
> means modifying (i.e. writing to) the directory) ?
>
> > To get around this, I supose I need a few lines of code that first test
> > if my file exist and then if it doesn't I will have to create it using
> > the touch command?? Any other ideas?
>
> If I'm right this won't work as well.
>
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>
> Pretty cool, the kind of power information technology puts in our hands
> these days.
>
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