Question

I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong here. The permissions for the directory I have for the file being created have write permissions all across the board. I keep getting “directory does not exist” Thanks for the help!

<?
//creates variables and calls the information from the server
$Name = $_POST['name'];
$desc = $_POST['desc'];
$website =$_POST['web'];
$email =$_POST['email'];
$cname =$_POST['cname'];
echo "your registered name is: ". $Name . ".<br/>";
echo "your registered description is: " . $desc . ".<br/>";
echo "your website address is: " . $website . ".<br/>";
echo "your Confirmation email has been sent to: " . $email . ".<br/>";

echo "your information has been stored, thank you! ";

$cname = trim($cname);

$filename = "data/clubinfo/$cname.txt";
$fp = fopen($filename,'a');
fwrite($fp,$Name);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp,$email);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp,$desc);
fwrite($fp,"\n");
fwrite($fp, $website);
fwrite($fp, "\n");
fwrite($fp,"__");
fwrite($fp, "\n");
fclose($fp);




 ?>

Answer 1

Most likely the script is assuming a different working directory to what you’re presuming since you’re using a relative path.

You’d be better off specifying the path absolutely or at least in relation to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] even if you do:

$filename = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "../data/clubinfo/$cname.txt";

The advantage of that is that it’s outside your document root so it won’t be served directly by your Web server. It will also work no matter the location of your script and will work no matter under what directory you install your Webapp, which can be an issue with dev vs prod deployments.