[Diggory Laycock]

Hi,

I have written a basic file upload class in PHP - but I'd like it to change the Permissions on the uploaded file.

However every time I try to use chgrp or chown in a PHP page it seems to halt the entire script (without any errors.)

e.g.:

[php]
<?php

echo("Changing perms starts.");

$file = "/users/diggory/desktop/40070029.jpg";
$groupName = "admin";
$ownershipPerms = "g+w";

chgrp ( $file, $groupName) // Change Permissions
or die("The group ownership of <em>$file</em> could not be set to <em>$groupName</em>"");


chown ( $file , $ownershipPerms))
or die("could not file ($file) permissions to ($ownershipPerms) ");


echo ("script ends.");
?>[/php]


Results in a completely blank HTML page - no errors at all - but also none of the echos I'd expect.

Am I doing this totally wrong?

[Diggory Laycock]

OK after more reading up on perms I realise I got it wrong - but I still don't understand why the script would fail silently...

ho hum.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
OK after more reading up on perms I realise I got it wrong - but I still don't understand why the script would fail silently...

ho hum.

It could be how the PHP install is configured. By default it writes errors out to the Apache error log in OSX (/var/log/httpd/error_log).

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
It could be how the PHP install is configured. By default it writes errors out to the Apache error log in OSX (/var/log/httpd/error_log).

Brilliant! thanks - I'd installed a newer PHP package and it had the display_errors directive set to No.