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Bobby Saul
13,968 PointsMy write_csv.php is not writing
<?php
$new_person = [ filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'first', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'last', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'website', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'twitter', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'img', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL) ];
if(($fh=fopen('../data/csv/people.csv', 'a+')) !== false){ fseek($fh, -1, SEEK_END); if(fgets($fh) !== PHP_EOL){ fputs($fh, PHP_EOL); } fputcsv($fh, $new_person); fclose($fh); } header('location: /people.php');
why is this not writing?
2 Answers
Ray Knag
8,110 PointsThis same thing happened to me and I realized that like in the previous lesson, you need to allow write permissions for people.csv. To do this, you'll need to open up the console, type "cd data/csv" to get to the right sub-directory, then type "ls -l" to view current permissions which will probably be "-rw-r--r--" for people.csv. This says that the user can write to this file, but the group and others can't. Since this is just for practice, you can enable full permissions for group, user, and other by finally typing "chmod ugo+rwx people.csv". Then do "ls -l" again and it should display full permissions "-rwxrwxrwx". You'll then be able to resubmit the form and the new individual should appear at the bottom of your page.
Hope this helps!
Sebastian Pikand
13,987 PointsThis solves the issue. Why wasn't it included in the video, like...? :D
Alena Holligan
Treehouse TeacherI have updated the workspace and also added to the Teachers Notes, if you have permission denied or are not able to write, you may go to View > Show Console then
chmod 777 data/csv/people.csv
Jorrit Tempelman
1,198 PointsJorrit Tempelman
1,198 PointsI have exactly the same problem. My code is the same as in the video:
<?php
$new_person = [ filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'first', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'last', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'website', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'twitter', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'img', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL) ];
if (($fh = fopen('../data/csv/people.csv', 'a+')) !== false ) { fseek($fh, -1, SEEK_END); if (fgets($fh) != PHP_EOL) { fputs($fh, PHP_EOL); } fputcsv($fh,$new_person); fclose($fh); } header('location: /people.php');