01272006 1137 GMT-6
I had to restart Firefox because of a movie crashed but after doing so,
I could read - particially - from the file. I didnt think I had to
restart the browser but that worked.
Yes, I have the ownership set to www-data. The file is in the var/www
folder.
However, I said partically above because it only reads the first line of
the file.
I wrote five quotes to the file...
Sorry... the purpose of the tutorial was to write to quotes.txt a quote.
And then the next tutorial was to read from it. It reads one of the
quotes randomly.
I wrote five quotes to the file, and looked to make sure they were
written. And now I can read the first quote only.
This is the code:
<?php //Script 11.3 - new_quote.php
// This script displays and handles on HTML form.
// It takes text input and stores it in a text file to show.
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
// Read the files contents into an array.
$data = file('../quotes.txt');
// Count the number of items in the array.
$n = count ($data);
// Pick a random item
$rand = rand (0, ($n - 1));
// Print the quotation.
print '<p>'. trim($data[$rand]) . '</p>';
?>
After it reads the first quote, if I hit refresh it loads nothing. I can
do that four times and then the first quote will show again.
Wade
James Keeline wrote:
>--- Wade Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Im doing a tutorial on reading and writing files.
>>Im on Ubuntu linux.
>>
>>The tutorial said that the file must already exist so that you
>>can set the permissions on it. So I created a file and set the
>>user and group to www-data. I set the permissions as 0666. I
>>can write to the file. I cannot read from it. I have the
>>ini_set to display errors and error reporting set to E_ALL &
>>~E_NOTICE. When I attempt to read the file nothing
>>is on the page and in the code there is only <p></p>.
>>
>>Would someone give me a pointer on this.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Wade
>>
>
>I assume that your Apache web server is running as the user www-data on
>Ubuntu? If so, you won't
>need 666 (-rw-rw-rw-) permissions on the file since you have changed the
>ownership. You could set
>it to 600 (-rw-------) and it should still work.
>
>However, this does not address your inability to read the file with PHP. Is
>the file in the web
>space? If so, can you read it directly with a browser pointing to a
>corresponding URL?
>
>If the file is outside of the web space there is a chance that safe_mode is on
>in php.ini which
>would prevent PHP programs from reading files owned by a different user than
>the PHP script.
>
>If you use:
>
>error_reporting(E_ALL);
>
>at the top of your program you should see all of the errors, including any
>safe_mode violations.
>
>James
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