[VEGAN]

OK, here's the deal:

I have to make a small data base [basically just a xml file]. I decided to make a custom interface to insert the data. So I used PHP.

The problem I have is that I can only append the existing file if I have set it "read/write" to everyone. But that's not a good idea. Someone can just erase it for "fun".

if I use say: fopen("ftp://myname:mypass@myserver/Users/myname/Sites/data.xml", "w")
then it only works if the file doesn't exist, that is, I can write one single file. Besides, I need to use "a" so...

How can I do this?

How can i write to a file on my server? yet have it writable only for one user.

HELP

[redJag]

fopen does not do what you need You could use MySQL, but that may be overkill for your situation.

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by redJag:
fopen does not do what you need You could use MySQL, but that may be overkill for your situation.

But they always have fopen/fput examples in the tutorials! It seems like such a small thing that i need... and can't have...

Can I change the user ID of the apache process, then? Coz the whole problem is that it runs as "nobody". If I could identify myself as "php" group or something, I'd feel more safe [allowing "write" to all in the group of "php"]

????

[madmacgames]

dunno if you've solved the problem or not, but how about this:
- write the XML file to a temporary local file.
- FTP the temporary file to your server, saving it as whatever it needs to be saved as.
- Delete the local file.
- Done

Let me know if you need any more advise on doing this. We do it all the time for product datafeeds (though server to server; but localhost to server should work just the same).