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PHP File Handling with PHP Basic File Handling Writing Files All at Once

Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points
Posted by Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points

Permissions for PHP File Handling

I am running into this error while working on the Basic File Handling - Writing all Files at Once video:

Warning: file_put_contents(data/html/sorted.html): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/treehouse/workspace/combine_sort.php on line 14

I noticed that there is a link about permissions at the bottom of the page and reviewed that video but even after giving rxw permissions to user, group, and other I am still getting the same error. I did this for the data directory, for combined_sort.php and for data/html/sotred.html but nothing seems to work.

If anyone has additional thoughts about this it would be much appreciated! Kinda stumped about what to try next for this

Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points
Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points

I figured this out after taking a detour to learn about console commands, I had the chmod correct but had the wrong file, the error was with sorted.html not with combine_sort.php! After giving full permissions for sorted.html the page began working!