Possible permissions issue with PHP file on IIS

Rollo Tamasi

Hi guys,
I'm not too much in the know about IIS hosting and .NET stuff so I'm struggling with a little issue I have. My server supports PHP and I have uploaded the following file and a blank output.xml file:
[PHP]
<?php
$url = "http://www.website.org/directory/rss?s=676&u=g225";
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$file = fopen("output.xml", "w+");
fputs($file, $data);
fclose($file);
?>
[/PHP]

The script is basically taking the contents of $url and puts it into a file called output.xml. When I run the PHP file, nothing happens. The .XML file doesn't update. I have logged onto my control panel and I have ticked all the boxes for permissions for both the PHP file and the output.xml.

I'm thinking either I haven't correctly set the permissions or the "w+" statement is incorrect here: $file = fopen("output.xml", "w+");

Any ideas? Thanks.

sh_o

If you try the following you can confirm if it is a permissions issue or otherwise....

<?php 
$data = "blah";
$file = fopen("output.xml", "w+"); 
fputs($file, $data); 
fclose($file); 
?>

Rollo Tamasi

Hi sh_o,
I made those changes but nothing happened.

Seth Brundle

does phpinfo work?

Rollo Tamasi

kbannon wrote: »

does phpinfo work?

Yup, it works.

sh_o

did you set the permissions for the user that runs the iis server:
http://coppermine-gallery.net/tutorial/permissions/iis.php

seamus

Most hosts have the "allow_url_fopen" option disabled in their PHP installs, and this prevents you from using the fopen() function to get the contents of web files.

Have a look at the cURL library instead. It's a little more work than fopen() but much more powerful.