How do I change a file permission in the File Manager

[Shahzeb_ZCopS]

https://zcops.com

I am trying to get the file permissions to the executable to save the responses from the forms using PHP. Unfortunately, I am unable to do it. Whenever I click CHMOD, nothing happens.

Literally, nothing happens.

I will be thankful if you will fix it urgently.

[ChrisPAR]

CHMOD is disabled on free hosting:

@JxstErg1

Hi and welcome to the forum! Editing CHMOD permissions is disabled on free hosting because, if you use it wrongly, you could accidentally lock yourself out of the files. Why do you need to edit CHMOD permissions?

What are you trying to achieve?

[Shahzeb_ZCopS]

I want to execute PHP but I couldn’t get that. This is the code:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
// Set the file path where you want to store the form data
$dataFilePath = __DIR__ . 'data/form_data.txt';

// Check if the form is submitted
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    // Get form data
    $name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
    $email = isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : '';
    $phone = isset($_POST['phone']) ? $_POST['phone'] : '';
    $message = isset($_POST['message']) ? $_POST['message'] : '';

    // Validate data (you may want to add more validation)
    if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($phone) || empty($message)) {
        die('All fields are required.');
        echo $name;
        echo $email;
        echo $phone;
        echo $message
    }

    // Create a formatted string with form data
    $formData = "Name: $name\nEmail: $email\nPhone: $phone\nMessage: $message\n\n";

    // Append data to the file
    $result = file_put_contents($dataFilePath, $formData, FILE_APPEND);

    // Check if the file operation was successful
    if ($result === false) {
        die('Error: Could not write to the file.');
    }

    // Display success message
    echo 'Form submission successful!';
} else {
    // Display error message if accessed directly
    echo 'Error: Invalid form submission.';
}
?>

Now, it should be storing the data from the forms in data/form_data.txt but it doesn’t.

Can you help me out? ( I used ChatGPT in every single way. It doesn’t work )

[Ziverre]

@Shahzeb_ZCopS

I used ChatGPT in every single way. It doesn’t work )

What did you expect? ChatGPT is not intended to be used as code assistant.

As for the problem:

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[Shahzeb_ZCopS]

Hmm… I can try that

[Admin]

@Shahzeb_ZCopS

$dataFilePath = __DIR__ . 'data/form_data.txt';

This part is incorrect. The __DIR__ parameter does not have a trailing slash. So if the __DIR__ is htdocs, then you’re now trying to write data to the file htdocsdata/form_data.txt. Adding a slash, so it becomes /data/form_data.txt, should do the trick.

[Shahzeb_ZCopS]

Thnks

It worked