failed to open stream: Permission denied [upload photo]

Question

Currently using macbook + apache + phpmyadmin + php + xampp. (running on localhost)

I'm trying to upload a photo into one of the folders through php but i am receiving this warning.

Is there any solution to this issue through macbook file setting?

Warning: file_put_contents(image/img_post720151014060113101414.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/CS2102/signup.php on line 32 couldn't execute query.

Codes:

include("db.php");

$userEmail = $_POST["userEmail"];
$firstName= $_POST["firstName"];
$lastName = $_POST["lastName"];
$userPassword = $_POST["userPassword"];
$nationality = $_POST["nationality"];
$birthday = $_POST["birthday"];
$gender = $_POST["gender"];

// prepare the image for insertion
$imgData =addslashes (file_get_contents($_FILES['test']['tmp_name']));
$bio = $_POST["bio"];

$filename = "img_post" . rand(1, 9) . date("YmdHis") . rand(25, 125) . rand(256, 850);
$allowed  = array(
    "image/jpeg",
    "image/pjpeg",
    "image/jpg",
    "image/png",
    "image/JPEG",
    "image/bmp",
    "image/PNG"
);

$result= UploadFile("test", $allowed, 10000000);
            if ($result[0] == 0) {
                // Put Photo uploaded into sever folder
                file_put_contents("image/" . $filename . ".jpg", $result[2]);
                $date  = (String) date("Y-M-d-H:i:s");

                // Query String
                $query = "INSERT INTO `user` (`userEmail`,`password`, `firstName`,  `lastName`,  `nationality`,`birthday`,`gender`,`picSrc`,`bio`) VALUES ('$userEmail','$password','$firstName','$lastName','$nationality','$birthday','$gender', '{$imgData}', '$bio')";  
                // Execute Query
                mysqli_query($mysqli,$query) or die("couldn't execute query.");
                echo '<script language="javascript">';
                echo 'alert("Photo Uploaded");';
                echo 'window.location.href="loginreg.php";';
            } else {
                if ($result[0] == "-1")
                    echo "wrong";
                if ($result[0] == "-2")
                    echo "wrong file type";
                if ($result[0] == "-3")
                    echo "MAximum length exceeded";
                if ($result[0] > 0)
                    echo "Error due to $result";
                echo $result[0];
                echo $result;
                echo "<br/>File Upload Error!";

            }


function UploadFile($name, $filetype, $maxlen)
{
    if (!isset($_FILES[$name]['name']))
        return array(
            -1,
            NULL,
            NULL
        );
    if (!isset($_FILES[$name]['type'], $filetype))
        return array(
            -2,
            NULL,
            NULL
        );
    if ($_FILES[$name]['size'] > $maxlen)
        return array(
            -3,
            NULL,
            NULL
        );
    if ($_FILES[$name]['error'] > 0)
        return array(
            $_FILES[$name]['error'],
            NULL,
            NULL
        );

    $temp = file_get_contents($_FILES[$name]['tmp_name']);
    return array(
        0,
        $_FILES[$name]['type'],
        $temp
    );
}


?>

It might help if you include line 32 (and maybe more) of signup.php. — Bennett Brown

Sharn White Sharn White · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-14T05:14:10

You need to specify a writable directory.

In this case:

// set BASE_DIR constant for later convenience
define('BASE_DIR', dirname(__FILE__).'/');

// specify filedir/filename you want to write to
$file = BASE_DIR.'image/'.$filename.'.jpg';

// write content to file
file_put_contents($file, $result[2]);

If that doesn't work, you'll have to go to the command-line and run:

chmod 0777 <path-to-web-folder>/image/

failed to open stream: Permission denied [upload photo]

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