PHP touch() function always returns false

Question

The following code:

if (!touch($this->cacheDirectory . '/index.html')) {
$this->error("Could not create the index.html file in the cache directory.");
}

always returns the user error in Mac server means the above touch function returns false.

Things that I have verified:

• Creation of file via terminal (unix console) works fine - using touch command.
• The cacheDirectory folder has permission 775.
• The group of this folder is _www and the apache user in Mac is _www .

Please help.

Answer 1

Look here:

http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.touch.php#86781

Actually, Glen is right, PHP won't touch if it is not the current owner of the file, even if the directory and files are writeable by the PHP user.

So, remove the file and let PHP create it with touch.