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Asked: 2026-06-12T13:23:07+00:00

I have a cron script that needs to write some html into a file.

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I have a cron script that needs to write some html into a file.

The file that needs to have HTML written is in public_html dir and the script in a different location, just above that dir. If I CHMOD manually everything works, but I don not want to leave it as 0777 or keep on doing it manually, so I wanted to make my script to do it for me.

ob_start();

// build my HTML

$myHTML = ob_get_clean();

// CODE TO SAVE INTO INCLUDE <<<

$filename = 'home/public_html/file.php';

if (is_writable($filename)) {

    if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'w')) {
         mail("support@domain.com", "Failed to create include", "Script failed to create include", "From: Support <support@domain.com>");
    exit;
    }

    // Write $somecontent to our opened file.
    if (fwrite($handle, ($myHTML)) === FALSE) {
       mail("support@domain.com", "Failed to create include", "Script failed to create include", "From: Support <support@domain.com>");
    exit;
    }

    fclose($handle);

} else {
    mail("support@domain.com", "Failed to create include", "Script failed to create include", "From: Support <support@domain.com>");
    exit;
}

Unfortunately it does not seem to work. Why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This looks like an absolute path home/public_html/ are you sure you didn’t mispell it ?
    You can

    var_dump(file_exists($filename))

    If true is returned then you can try
    With

    var_dump(file_put_contents($filename,$myHTML))

    You can check how much bytes you’ve written in it.
    If false is returned this means you’re having a permission issue

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