Can PHP do this?

[rraehal]

I have written a PHP script. I upload and open a text file and read that file. The contents of the original file are reformatted and a new file is written. I then delete the uploaded file. My user is prompted to download the new file.

All that part of the script works great. I was wondering if there was a way to move the original file. The file is in Q:\Kiosk. Can I move the file on the Q drive from the Kiosk folder to say Q:\Kiosk\Archive using PHP. Perhaps a function similar to move_uploaded_file?

If there is not a built in function, can PHP even move a local file instead of a server file? I always assumed not but thought I would ask. It would prevent me from manually removing or moving the original file. The server can have access to the Q drive if someone is logged in. It could also access the network using a UNC path.

[jjinno]

If you are referring to the Q drive as a drive on the server then the answer is yes... otherwise the answer is no. Web protocols are just specifically set up to prevent this type of "malicious" file access.

[rraehal]

That leads to another question. The server can access the Q drive if someone is logged in and the drive is mapped. Would the server then use the credentials of the person logged into the server when the Q drive is accessed?

Would I use the Move Uploaded file function to move the file on drive Q? It seems logical but want to make sure before I start messing with the code of my script. I will try this next week.

[rraehal]

I successfully have this script moving files on a network path. It took a little while to figure out my problem. My IIS machine is running on a Standalone machine that is part of our AD. The security for the machine when using the web is via user IIS_INTRANET. That user is a local machine account. I changed the anonymous access for IIS to a AD user with a fixed password and granted access to only the \\SERVER\SHARE\KIOSK folder and subfolders and the script works perfectly.

I am using the rename function to move the files. This made it so I do not need to delete anything.

[cheap freelancer]

You have made your machine more vulnerable to hacking.