creating a file

[davidstummer]

i am trying to create a file, without success my code:

<?
$tmp = tempnam ("/neo.nocdirect.com/public_html", "tmpFile");
$fp = @fopen ($tmp, "w");
if (!$fp){
          die("no");
}

fputs($fp, "hi\n");

@fclose($fp);
?>

when i ftp in i cannot see the file

how can i do this to make it work? cheers

[jason]

The correct path to use to get to your public_html directory is /home/username/public_html, where username is your CPanel login name.

--Jason

[randyriegel]

I tried it with /home/myusername/public_html and it created the file in /tmp. PHP manual says this is normal behavior with older versions of PHP (prior to php 4.0.6). Now I'm wondering why this is still happening if since we're running 4.3.2.

[mattsiegman]

is the directory properly chmodded?

[jason]

Originally posted by mattsiegman
is the directory properly chmodded?

Matt makes a good point. PHP runs as nobody, so in order to write to your public_html you'll need to change the permissions on the directory. However, I'd recommend saving the file to some place either outside of public_html or in a subdirectory of it. Making your entire site world writable is asking for trouble...

--Jason