Re: Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-21 Thread Roland Dumas
not using apache, but permissions were set such that anyone has read/ write privileges. witango had no problem, it was PHP that was misbehaving. On May 20, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Christian Platt wrote: Hi Roland, what permissions does the folder have? apache normally uses www as owner, witango

Re: Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-20 Thread Robert Garcia
start with http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php if true, then http://us3.php.net/is_writable and maybe. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.is-readable.php -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr

Re: Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-20 Thread Roland Dumas
well, the application is throwing an error that says file doesn't exist. The files do exist and are in a directory that is pointed to by an alias. The alias is the directory name that PHP is looking for. Something with how aliases work? On May 19, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Robert Garcia wrote:

Re: Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-20 Thread Roland Dumas
got frustrated and turned things around. Wanted the witango site and the PHP site to be using the same folder for pdf files. Pointing the PHP site to the folder in the witango site used to work, but stopped. Only solution was to move the folder to the PHP site and point the witango site to

Re: Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-20 Thread Christian Platt
Hi Roland, what permissions does the folder have? apache normally uses www as owner, witango needs witango did us try chmod 777? Christian Am 20.05.2009 um 07:51 schrieb Roland Dumas: there's a PHP application that I didn't write (or know anything about) that reads and writes to a

Witango-Talk: WAY OT: anyone know anything about PHP and files?

2009-05-19 Thread Roland Dumas
there's a PHP application that I didn't write (or know anything about) that reads and writes to a directory. It's tracking PDF files. In the PHP application, there is a PDF folder that is an alias to the real folder containing the files. I edited the alias to point to a different folder