Swell, I found the error, and it was a STUPID one.. I misconfigured fread()!
Thanx though Phil TCL 1, PHP 2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phil Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP can't access txt files (but TCL can..??) > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 14:53, Phil Powell wrote: > > TCL 1, PHP 0 > > > > Ok, I am frustrated.. here is my code and this portion has to be done in > > PHP. I have a frame that can only be accessed if 1 of 2 things occur: > > > > 1) if $HTTP_REFERER has a specific value > > 2) if your nickname passed in the query string is found in the existing > > nicknames.txt file found in /chat/nicknames.txt > > > > Here is the code: > > Notes: > > o What version of PHP? > o Is register_globals on or off? i.e. are you sure $DOCUMENT_ROOT > has a value and that you're not trying to open '/chat/nicknames.txt'? > o Quote the 'r' in the fopen() call. > o Try this all with error_reporting(E_ALL) and fix (not with '@') > everything it complains about. > o Your second regex checks that $contents contains at least one alpha- > numeric or an underscore or a hyphen. Looks like it should be > checking that the string contains *only* those characters. > o fread() takes 2 parameters, not one. > o 'damage galore' doesn't tell us anything. What *exactly* is the > current result of running the below? > > > <? > > // Security measure to prevent bookmarking of page unless nickname exists > > in nicknames.txt > > $contents = ""; > > if (!preg_match("/\bchat_process_nickname\b/i", $HTTP_REFERER)) { > > $canAccessChatroom = 1; > > if (strlen($nickname) < 2) $canAccessChatroom = 0; > > if (!file_exists($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/chat/nicknames.txt")) > > $canAccessChatroom = 0; > > if ($canAccessChatroom == 1) { > > $fileID = fopen($DOCUMENT_ROOT. "/chat/nicknames.txt", r) or die ("could > > not open file"); > > if (!$fileID) { > > $canAccessChatroom = 0; > > } else { > > $contents = fread($fileID); > > fclose($fileID); > > } > > } > > if ($canAccessChatroom == 1 && strlen($contents) == 0) $canAccessChatroom > > = 0; > > if ($canAccessChatroom == 1 && !preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+/", > > $contents)) $canAccessChatroom == 0; > > if ($canAccessChatroom == 1) { > > if (!preg_match("/\b$nickname\b/i", $contents)) $canAccessChatroom == 0; > > } > > if ($canAccessChatroom == 0) { > > echo "<meta http-equiv=Refresh content='1;URL=http://" . $SERVER_NAME . > > "/chat/chat_login.php'>\n"; > > echo "<script>\n<!--\n location.href='http://" . $SERVER_NAME . > > "/chat/chat_login.php';\n\/\/-->\n</script>\n"; > > } > > } > > ?> > > > > No matter what I do, however, the file cannot be accessed if it exists and > > causes damage galore. Can anyone out there help me figure out what I did > > wrong; I'm completely stumped and may have to rewrite this portion of the > > chatroom in TCL, all of my TCL scripts have had NO problems whatsoever > > accessing the txt files. > > > > Phil > > > -- > Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com > http://www.hybrid17.com > http://www.inflatableeye.com > +1.604.709.0506 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php