Re: [PHP] problems with permissions or getting access to a file

On 10 February 2010 16:31, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi all
> having trouble here with a site that I am hosting on go-daddy
>
> I want to keep my php and my images apart
>
> so to do this I have the base directory which contains the php scripts. On
> the directory above that I have
> my photos stored in /photos
>
> when I run my scripts I get the following:
>
> time -4 hours1265815323 <
> *Warning*: filemtime() [function.filemtime
> <http://www.patrickrice.net/tomdcam/function.filemtime>]: stat failed for
> testPanasonicCamMotion20100201022429140.jpg in
> */home/content/j/a/c/jackcards/html/tomdcam/MotionCamLast1Hours.php* on line
> *16*
>
> 1265815323
>
> *Warning*: filemtime() [function.filemtime
> <http://www.patrickrice.net/tomdcam/function.filemtime>]: stat failed for
> testPanasonicCamMotion20100201022429140.jpg in
> */home/content/j/a/c/jackcards/html/tomdcam/MotionCamLast1Hours.php* on line
> *28*
> 0
> time -4 hours1265815323 <
> *Warning*: filemtime() [function.filemtime
> <http://www.patrickrice.net/tomdcam/function.filemtime>]: stat failed for
> testPanasonicCamMotion20100201022619570.jpg in
> */home/content/j/a/c/jackcards/html/tomdcam/MotionCamLast1Hours.php* on line
> *16
>
> *_The script is the following below _from running this script, I keep
> getting this error, now when I copy this script in to the directory photo
> where the photos are stored, the script displays the images with no problems
> leaving me think that the issue is with the permissions, I have modified the
> pre-emptions to give all access as a test and still problems. Anyone got any
> Ideas??
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Pat
>
>  6 <?php
>  7 $debug =1;
>  8 $d = dir('/home/content/j/a/c/jackcards/html/tomdcam/photo/') or
> die($php_errormsg);
>  9 while (false !== ($f = $d->read())) {
> 10     // only match alphabetic names
> 11     if (preg_match('/testPanasonicCamMotion/',$f)) {
> 12
> 13         if ($debug == 1) {
> 14         echo "time -4 hours" . strtotime("- 1 hours" ). "      <    ";
> 15
> 16         echo filemtime($f);
> 17         echo "  <br>";
> 18         }//end debug
> 19
> 20         $FourHoursAgo = intval(strtotime("- 1 hours" ));
> 21
> 22         if ($debug == 1) {
> 23         echo $FourHoursAgo;
> 24 #      25         echo "<br>";
> 26         }
> 27
> 28         $dateOfFileModify = intval(date((filemtime($f)) ));
> 29
> 30         if ($debug == 1) {
> 31         echo $dateOfFileModify;
> 32         echo "<br>";
> 33         }
> 34
> 35
> 36         if ($FourHoursAgo < $dateOfFileModify)
> 37 #       if(intval(strtotime("- 4 hours" )) <
> intval(strtotime(filemtime($f))) )
> 38
> 39 #       if (strcmp(strtotime("- 4 hours" ),strtotime(filemtime($f)) ) >
> 0)
> 40
> 41         {
> 42         #echo '<br> Images less than 4 hours <br>';
> 43
> 44
> 45
> 46
> 47         print "filename: $f <br>";
> 48         print "<IMG SRC=\"$f \"> <br>\n";
> 49
> 50 #       echo "Last accessed on: " . date("d-m-y H:i:s", strtotime("+ 8
> hours", fileatime($f)) );
> 51 #       echo "<br>";
> 52         echo "Last modified on: " . date("d-m-y H:i:s", strtotime("+ 8
> hours", filemtime($f)) );
> 53         echo "<br> <hr>";
> 54         }//end of if statment
> 55
> 56
> 57 #       else {
> 58 #               print " <br> None Found <br>";
> 59 #       }
> 60     }
> 61 }
> 62 $d->close();
> 63
> 64
> 65 ?>
>
> *
> *
>
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read() only returns the filename, not the full path.

So, when the script is in the same directory, the current directory
contains the required file.

Try using ...

filemtime(realpath($f))

instead.

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