Subject: failed to open stream: Permission denied

[swethak]

Hi,

when i run my code it gives error as

fopen(lib/providers//provider.RVLogi c.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in F:\Facebook\fur niture11\Data Mining\public_h tml\lib\inc\fun ctions.lib.php

Line 673 : trigger_error(" Failed to open stream to $filename. Permission denied!", E_USER_ERROR);

could you plz tell the solution for how to avoid that errors

[PHP]

// Define Needed Function
if(!function_ex ists('file_put_ contents'))
{
if (!defined('FILE _USE_INCLUDE_PA TH'))
define('FILE_US E_INCLUDE_PATH' , 1);

if (!defined('LOCK _EX'))
define('LOCK_EX ', 2);

if (!defined('FILE _APPEND'))
define('FILE_AP PEND', 8);

function file_put_conten ts($filename, $data, $flags = NULL)
{
//if(!file_exists ($filename)) trigger_error(" File $filename doesn't exist!", E_USER_ERROR);

if(!isset($data )) trigger_error(" No value provided for required parameter \$data!", E_USER_ERROR);

if(empty($data) && $data != 0) trigger_error(" Empty value passed for parameter \$data!", E_USER_ERROR);

if (FALSE === ($fp = @fopen($filenam e, $flags & FILE_APPEND ? 'a' : 'wb', $flags & FILE_USE_INCLUD E_PATH)))
{
trigger_error(" Failed to open stream to $filename. Permission denied!", E_USER_ERROR);
return FALSE;
}

if ($flags & LOCK_EX)
if (!flock($fp, LOCK_EX))
trigger_error(" Exclusive lock to $file was not obtained!", E_USER_WARNING) ;

$length = strlen($data);
$bytes = 0;

if (FALSE === ($bytes = @fwrite($fp, $data)))
{
trigger_error(" Failed to write $length bytes to $filename!", E_USER_ERROR);
return FALSE;
}

fclose($fp);

if($bytes != $length)
{
trigger_error(" Only $bytes of $length bytes were written to $filename! Possibly out of disk space.", E_USER_WARNING) ;
return FALSE;
}

return $bytes;
}
}

[/PHP]

[Markus]

You forgot to close the PHP tag: [/PHP]

[pbmods]

Heya, Swethak.

To avoid this error, you have to modify permissions on the directory that will contain the file in question so that it is writeable by the webserver process.