On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:06, PHP User wrote:
> Here is my problem.
> I have a file, static.php
> static.php writes to index.html by way of...
> $filename = "/web/h16/docs/index.html";
> $fp = fopen("$filename","w");
> fwrite($fp, "<table width=\"230\">\n");
> etc......
>
> If I hit static.php from the command line, index.html gets written just
> fine. static.php does it's job.
>
> If I try to exec(), or system() static.php from a browser the browser
> just hangs. eg. I add:
> system ('/usr/local/bin/php web/h16/docs/index.html);
> or
> exec ('/usr/local/bin/php web/h16/docs/index.html);
> To a file and get nothing. I tried with and without the absolute paths
> in the commands.
>
> What I want to be able to do is every time I update a Db, at the same
> time I want the index page to be rewritten to reflect the changes in
> the Db. And I don't want to have to go to the command line everytime I
> want to rewrite the index page. So I would just hit "SAve" in the
> update.php page, it would save to the Db, which it does now, and at the
> same time it hits static.php and therefore rewrites index.html
>
> I also tried header() but that was no good due to echo in the pages,
> gives that header already sent error.
>
> Is there a funtion I am missing somehwere that does the job?
>
> It's a Unix box running php 4.03, and the Db is MySQL
>
> Thanks Much!!
Is it possible you have a permissions problem? Remember that your
webserver will probably be running as something like nobody, which may
not have the necessary permissions to wwrite to files in that particular
directory.
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