This file_write() function will give $filename the write permission before writing $content to it.
Note that many servers do not allow file permissions to be changed by the PHP user.
<?php
function file_write($filename, &$content) {
if (!is_writable($filename)) {
if (!chmod($filename, 0666)) {
echo "Cannot change the mode of file ($filename)";
exit;
};
}
if (!$fp = @fopen($filename, "w")) {
echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}
if (fwrite($fp, $content) === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}
if (!fclose($fp)) {
echo "Cannot close file ($filename)";
exit;
}
}
?>
is_writable
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
is_writable — Indique si un fichier est accessible en écriture
Description
$filename
)
retourne TRUE si filename existe et est
accessible en écriture. L'argument peut être le nom d'un dossier,
vous permettant ainsi de vérifier si le dossier est accessible
en écriture.
N'oubliez pas que PHP accède aux fichiers avec les mêmes autorisations que l'utilisateur qui fait tourner le serveur web (souvent, c'est 'nobody', personne). Les limitations du safe mode ne sont pas prises en compte.
Liste de paramètres
-
filename -
Le nom du fichier à vérifier.
Valeurs de retour
Retourne TRUE si le fichier filename
existe et est accessible en écriture.
Exemples
Exemple #1 Exemple avec is_writable()
<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
if (is_writable($filename)) {
echo 'Le fichier est accessible en écriture.';
} else {
echo 'Le fichier n\'est pas accessible en écriture !';
}
?>
Erreurs / Exceptions
En cas d'échec, une alerte de type E_WARNING sera émise.
Notes
Note: Les résultats de cette fonction sont mis en cache. Voyez la fonction clearstatcache() pour plus de détails.
Depuis PHP 5.0.0, cette fonction peut aussi être utilisée avec quelques protocoles url. Lisez Liste des protocoles et des gestionnaires supportés pour connaître les protocoles supportant la famille de fonctionnalités de stat().
Voir aussi
- is_readable() - Indique si un fichier existe et est accessible en lecture
- file_exists() - Vérifie si un fichier ou un dossier existe
- fwrite() - Écrit un fichier en mode binaire
To Darek and F Dot: About group permissions, there is this note in the php.ini file:
; By default, Safe Mode does a UID compare check when
; opening files. If you want to relax this to a GID compare,
; then turn on safe_mode_gid.
safe_mode_gid = Off
It appears that is_writable() does not check full permissions of a file to determine whether the current user can write to it. For example, with Apache running as user 'www', and a member of the group 'wheel', is_writable() returns false on a file like
-rwxrwxr-x root wheel /etc/some.file
Regarding you might recognize your files on your web contructed by your PHP-scripts are grouped as NOBODY you can avoid this problem by setting up an FTP-Connection ("ftp_connect", "ftp_raw", etc.) and use methods like "ftp_fput" to create these [instead of giving out rights so you can use the usual "unsecure" way]. This will give the files created not the GROUP NOBODY - it will give out the GROUP your FTP-Connection via your FTP-Program uses, too.
Furthermore you might want to hash the password for the FTP-Connection - then check out:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Password_hashing.html
The results of this function seems to be not cached :
Tested on linux and windows
<?php
chmod($s_pathFichier, 0400);
echo'<pre>';var_dump(is_writable($s_pathFichier));echo'</pre>';
chmod($s_pathFichier, 04600);
echo'<pre>';var_dump(is_writable($s_pathFichier));echo'</pre>';
exit;
?>
This is the latest version of is__writable() I could come up with.
It can accept files or folders, but folders should end with a trailing slash! The function attempts to actually write a file, so it will correctly return true when a file/folder can be written to when the user has ACL write access to it.
<?php
function is__writable($path) {
//will work in despite of Windows ACLs bug
//NOTE: use a trailing slash for folders!!!
//see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27609
//see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30931
if ($path{strlen($path)-1}=='/') // recursively return a temporary file path
return is__writable($path.uniqid(mt_rand()).'.tmp');
else if (is_dir($path))
return is__writable($path.'/'.uniqid(mt_rand()).'.tmp');
// check tmp file for read/write capabilities
$rm = file_exists($path);
$f = @fopen($path, 'a');
if ($f===false)
return false;
fclose($f);
if (!$rm)
unlink($path);
return true;
}
?>
Since looks like the Windows ACLs bug "wont fix" (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27609) I propose this alternative function:
<?php
function is__writable($path) {
if ($path{strlen($path)-1}=='/')
return is__writable($path.uniqid(mt_rand()).'.tmp');
if (file_exists($path)) {
if (!($f = @fopen($path, 'r+')))
return false;
fclose($f);
return true;
}
if (!($f = @fopen($path, 'w')))
return false;
fclose($f);
unlink($path);
return true;
}
?>
It should work both on *nix and Windows
NOTE: you must use a trailing slash to identify a directory
In response to Darek:
We have two servers: one running PHP 5.0.4 and Apache 1.3.33, the other running PHP 4.3.5 and Apache 1.3.27. The PHP 4 server exhibits the behavior you are describing, with is_writable() returning 'false' even though the www user is in the group that owns the file, but the PHP 5 server is returning 'true.'
Under Windows, it only returns the read-only attribute status, not the actual permissions (ACL).
See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27609
I was trying to create a new file using fwrite, and i had the following error. Any idea?
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
Ooooops, sorry! My mistake. is__writable should be:
<?php
function is__writable($path)
{
if ($path{strlen($path)-1}=='/') //Start function again with tmp file...
return is__writable($path.uniqid(mt_rand()).'.tmp');
elseif (ereg('.tmp', $path))
{ //Check tmp file for read/write capabilities
if (!($f = @fopen($path, 'w+')))
return false;
fclose($f);
unlink($path);
return true;
}
else //We have a path error.
return 0; // Or return error - invalid path...
}
?>
The original could've deleted a folder if the path was invalid to start with (no trailing slash..) and the folder was writable to begin with...
Be careful of legolas558 dot sourceforge comma net's example, try this instead:
<?php
function is__writable($path)
{
if ($path{strlen($path)-1}=='/')
return is__writable($path.uniqid(mt_rand()).'.tmp');
elseif (file_exists($path) && ereg('.tmp', $path))
{
if (!($f = @fopen($path, 'w+')))
return false;
fclose($f);
unlink($path);
return true;
}
else
return 0; // Or return error - invalid path...
}
?>
this one recursivly checks if a folder and all its contents are writeable
<?php
function is_removeable($dir)
{
$folder = opendir($dir);
while($file = readdir( $folder ))
if($file != '.' && $file != '..' &&
( !is_writable( $dir."/".$file ) ||
( is_dir( $dir."/".$file ) && !is_removeable( $dir."/".$file ) ) ))
{
closedir($dir);
return false;
}
closedir($dir);
return true;
}
?>
