fopen() problem

[Schmoopy]

Ah I see, that makes sense, I guess it would be a pretty big security issue if PHP could open files and edit them on someone's computer.

[Nile]

Haha, yeah:

$gl = glob('C://*');

Super unsecure.

[Schmoopy]

Does that search through all files on their PC? lol

[Nile]

Well - if you were allowed to open files on the hard drive. But PHP doesn't allow it(thank god).

[Twey]

When it says 'your system' it means 'the system on which the PHP script is running' — i.e. your server. The webserver cannot (directly) access files on the client machine.

This isn't a question of what PHP allows: HTTP doesn't provide a mechanism to do it (for fairly obvious reasons). Of course, if you have an FTP or SSH server set up on the HTTP client machine, it's a different matter.