Find file on server

Question

Good afternoon, I have a PHP file that looks for a txt to take the information and go up the SQL database, but this file is generated by the server here in the company (where my machine is already mapped to R: or Adm server).

Today I have to go on R:, get that file (ATUALIZA.TXT), bring to my machine in the WAMP folder, where the PHP file is, and then I run the file.

But I wanted to leave this "automatic", where my PHP program already looked at the server directly without having to play on my machine.

Today I use the fopen (ATUALIZA.txt, r)", to open the file, and it works normally. I’m getting this error when using the server walk: fopen (\\servidor\adm\atualiza.txt):failed to open stream. permission denied in blá blá blá.

Can anyone help me find a solution on how to open this file on the network?? Thank you.

Answer 1

I’m sorry I don’t put that as a comment, but I still don’t have the reputation for it...

I had a similar problem in the company where I work, where PHP created the file on the server but did not create it with the proper read permissions, the solution I found was to change the file permission soon after its generation, with the command chmod, solved my problem.

Take an example:

<?php
// Escrita e leitura para o proprietario, nada ninguem mais
chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0600);

// Escrita e leitura para o proprietario, leitura para todos os outros
chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0644);

// Tudo para o proprietario, leitura e execucao para os outros
chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0755);

// Tudo para o proprietario, leitura e execucao para o grupo do prop
chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0750);
?>

the function chmod returns true or false, and in your case you might as well do something like:

<?php
if(chmod("ATUALIZA.TXT", 0644)){
  //instruções para lidar com o ficheiro
  ...
}
?>

Another thing is, why use .txt if there are options like JSON and XML ?

Answer 2

As the function shell_exec() is very dangerous to the system, here is another function that can solve your problem.

For PHP documentation, you can use the command copy(), that it will copy a source to a destination.

copy ( 'R:\ATUALIZA.TXT' , 'c:\pata_do_wamp\seu_site\ATUALIZA.TXT' );