Open A File To Store Some Date :: Permissions Dilemma
I want to open a file to store some data. However, when I use fopen('filename', w) I get permission denied. So, I've changed the permissions of the directory to get rid of the permission denied problem. Unfortunately, this seemed to require changing the directory to have permissions 777.
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