Php Fopen Permision Issue

[PAAAT]

Hey,

I need some help,

I'm rewriting a script that parses an rss, to make my site load faster i'm adding code to cache what i need into a file. So that i only read it every hour rather than every page load.

 

Here's what it says:

Warning: fopen(./cache/steam_news.cache) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in file on line x

line x looks like that:

if ( $the_file = fopen($cache_file, "w") ) {

 

so it can't open the file to read it. I would apreciate if someone told me if i have to change the chmod and to what. My concern is that i only want to give it the minimum permision to do that so that no one can modify that file other than the server.

 

please let me know what i can do.

thanks in advance

[PAAAT]

it works if i set the chmod to 777 on the folder i wanna put the cache file into, but is that safe to do so?

[TCH-Don]

Most scripts like forums and image galleries and so forth use 777 for a folder

so the script can write to the folder.

 

Is it safe, maybe not , but what choice do we have.

[PAAAT]

okay thanks, i was just wondering if there was a safer way to do it.