Using implode with Windows UNC path names.

[Shawn Campbell]

Here's my scenario:

I'm creating a build environment with one system acting as the main
build dispatcher and other systems as the build hosts. On the main
build system I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and I'm building a
website that will allow people to view/start/etc. builds.

I'm trying to get PHP to implode a log file that resides on one of the
host builds systems. I have the host and and the share, so what I'm
passing into the implode command is:

\\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt

This gives me the following warning:

Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21

Question:

Is there a way for PHP to open a file on a different system from a
folder that has been shared? I'm not too worried about security as
this is an internal site to the company.

Thanks for any help!

-Shawn Campbell

[Terence]

Re: Using implode with Windows UNC path names.

Shawn Campbell wrote:[color=blue]
> Here's my scenario:
>
> I'm creating a build environment with one system acting as the main
> build dispatcher and other systems as the build hosts. On the main
> build system I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and I'm building a
> website that will allow people to view/start/etc. builds.
>
> I'm trying to get PHP to implode a log file that resides on one of the
> host builds systems. I have the host and and the share, so what I'm
> passing into the implode command is:
>
> \\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt
>
> This gives me the following warning:
>
> Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
> directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21
>
> Question:
>
> Is there a way for PHP to open a file on a different system from a
> folder that has been shared? I'm not too worried about security as
> this is an internal site to the company.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -Shawn Campbell[/color]


use single quotes to refer to the file name. If you use double quotes,
then PHP will expand the backslash character to mean that it is not a
back slash, but an escape. so
\\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt
will be translated to
\NH8516D02Dpj30 2weblog.txt

use single quotes to prevent expansion of backslashes like so

function_respon sible_for_openi ng_the_file('\\ NH8516D02\Dpj30 2\weblog.txt');

[Shawn Campbell]

Re: Using implode with Windows UNC path names.

Terence <tk.lists@fastm ail.fm> wrote in message news:<3f1f8ec3$ 1@cicada>...[color=blue]
> Shawn Campbell wrote:[color=green]
> > Here's my scenario:
> >
> > I'm creating a build environment with one system acting as the main
> > build dispatcher and other systems as the build hosts. On the main
> > build system I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and I'm building a
> > website that will allow people to view/start/etc. builds.
> >
> > I'm trying to get PHP to implode a log file that resides on one of the
> > host builds systems. I have the host and and the share, so what I'm
> > passing into the implode command is:
> >
> > \\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt
> >
> > This gives me the following warning:
> >
> > Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
> > directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Is there a way for PHP to open a file on a different system from a
> > folder that has been shared? I'm not too worried about security as
> > this is an internal site to the company.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > -Shawn Campbell[/color]
>
>
> use single quotes to refer to the file name. If you use double quotes,
> then PHP will expand the backslash character to mean that it is not a
> back slash, but an escape. so
> \\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt
> will be translated to
> \NH8516D02Dpj30 2weblog.txt
>
> use single quotes to prevent expansion of backslashes like so
>
> function_respon sible_for_openi ng_the_file('\\ NH8516D02\Dpj30 2\weblog.txt');[/color]

The php code does have it correctly. Here's the snippet from my code.


=============== =========
$db = mysql_connect(" localhost", "root");
mysql_select_db ("bldcentral",$ db);

$StrSQL = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE ProductID='$pid ';";
$result1 = mysql_query($St rSQL,$db);
$product = mysql_fetch_arr ay($result1);

$logfile = sprintf("\\\\%s \\%s\\weblog.tx t", $product["System"],
$product["HostShare"]);
$log_content = implode ('', file ($logfile));
=============== =========

When running this the error I get is:

Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21

It looks more like Apache will not allow a file from another system to
be opened in this manner.

Any other suggestions?

[Terence]

Re: Using implode with Windows UNC path names.

Shawn Campbell wrote:[color=blue]
> Terence <tk.lists@fastm ail.fm> wrote in message news:<3f1f8ec3$ 1@cicada>...
>[color=green]
>>Shawn Campbell wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Here's my scenario:
>>>
>>>I'm creating a build environment with one system acting as the main
>>>build dispatcher and other systems as the build hosts. On the main
>>>build system I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and I'm building a
>>>website that will allow people to view/start/etc. builds.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to get PHP to implode a log file that resides on one of the
>>>host builds systems. I have the host and and the share, so what I'm
>>>passing into the implode command is:
>>>
>>>\\NH8516D02\ Dpj302\weblog.t xt
>>>
>>>This gives me the following warning:
>>>
>>>Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
>>>directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21
>>>
>>>Question:
>>>
>>>Is there a way for PHP to open a file on a different system from a
>>>folder that has been shared? I'm not too worried about security as
>>>this is an internal site to the company.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>>-Shawn Campbell[/color]
>>
>>
>>use single quotes to refer to the file name. If you use double quotes,
>>then PHP will expand the backslash character to mean that it is not a
>>back slash, but an escape. so
>>\\NH8516D02\D pj302\weblog.tx t
>>will be translated to
>>\NH8516D02Dpj 302weblog.txt
>>
>>use single quotes to prevent expansion of backslashes like so
>>
>>function_resp onsible_for_ope ning_the_file(' \\NH8516D02\Dpj 302\weblog.txt' );[/color]
>
>
> The php code does have it correctly. Here's the snippet from my code.
>
>
> =============== =========
> $db = mysql_connect(" localhost", "root");
> mysql_select_db ("bldcentral",$ db);
>
> $StrSQL = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE ProductID='$pid ';";
> $result1 = mysql_query($St rSQL,$db);
> $product = mysql_fetch_arr ay($result1);
>
> $logfile = sprintf("\\\\%s \\%s\\weblog.tx t", $product["System"],
> $product["HostShare"]);
> $log_content = implode ('', file ($logfile));
> =============== =========
>
> When running this the error I get is:
>
> Warning: file("\\NH8516D 02\Dpj302\weblo g.txt") - No such file or
> directory in C:\apache\htdoc s\bldcentral\vi ewlog.php on line 21
>
> It looks more like Apache will not allow a file from another system to
> be opened in this manner.
>
> Any other suggestions?[/color]

Well I can tell you that apache doesn't limit PHP's file access other
than by virtue of the user that the apache process is running as.
Anyhow, if your apache's [run-as] user doesn't have permissions to a
particular file resource, then you should get a permissions error.

I've just built a PHP application running on win2k with apache and I've
been accessing files on a UNC file share with no problems at all.

just give the single quotes a try and let me know how you go.