mysterious problem with fopen and

[scorpion]

I have a strange problem:

I have a file in a directory called movie.avi with 1mb. The directory is 777.

I issue command:

$writeback = fopen("movie.avi", "w");

and get:

Warning: fopen("movie.avi", "w") - Permission denied in ... on line 66

Why does it do this, it should overwrite the existing file...

If I choose a different file name, one that didn't exist originally in the directory, it writes it no problem, over and over again. Of course it is always 0 bytes..

Any idea why this might be happening. Could it be someone else is downloading the file from my server as I'm trying to issue this command?

[Fischerlaender]

Did you check the privileges of your file movie.avi? You just mentioned your directory is 777, but to write to (actually delete) movie.avi, your script needs write privilege for it.

[scorpion]

is there a php command that can set the permissions of a file?

[Fischerlaender]

Try chmod [php.net].

<edit>changed URL to englisch manual page</edit>