Warning: file_put_contents - cannot create file using php

Question

When I am trying to do this:

$txt = file_get_contents('http://stats.pingdom.com/file'); 
file_put_contents('/stats/file.html',$txt);

I am getting following error:

Warning: file_put_contents(stats/stats.html) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/jtf/public_html/index.php on line 2

the folder stats is 777

what am I doing wrong?

thanks

Answer 1

/stats and stats (or the equivalent, ./stats) are not necessarily the same directory (in fact they might refer to the same directory only in theory). Most likely you are currently trying to write to a directory that does not even exist.

So this should work:

file_put_contents('stats/file.html',$txt); // removed "/" prefix

Answer 2

Try this:

$txt = file_get_contents('http://stats.pingdom.com/file');
file_put_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/stats/file.html', $txt);

Answer 3

There is no /stats/ folder in the root directory on your server, I believe.

Note the /home/jtf/public_html/ path. You have to use this one to address files in the document root of your web-server.

Answer 4

Your path points to / instead to /home/jtf/public_html/
Just use ../