Question

I’m trying to open a file with PHP for write access:

$myFile = "all.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");

My browser is spitting back:

can’t open file

I’ve tried to chmod -R 777 the folder where this PHP file is as well as where $myFile (a text file) sits. What else could be the problem?

It ends up being that there are permission errors when I turn error reporting on. When I do ls -la all.txt, I get -rwx------ 1 Myname staff 0 Nov 8 15:11 all.txt

Answer 1

If the script is started from other directory, please try open file from the full URI.

Example:

$myFile = '/path/to/myFile.txt';
if (!file_exists($myFile)) {
  print 'File not found';
}
else if(!$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w')) {
  print 'Can\'t open file';
}
else {
  print 'Success open file';
}