Fix How? Fontpress Wordpress Plugin Error “Warning: file_get_contents(C:\./..) failed to open stream: Permission denied” on Win7 64 XAMPP 1.8.1 WP 3.5 [closed]

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Fix How? Fontpress Wordpress Plugin Error "Warning: file_get_contents(C:./..) failed to open stream: Permission denied" on Win7 64 XAMPP 1.8.1 WP 3.5

Warning: file_get_contents(C:\Git\HG\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/wp-content/plugins/fontpress/cufon/..): 
failed to open stream: Permission denied in 
C:\Git\HG\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\fontpress\functions.php on line 9

I am guessing this is due to some PHP related limited Ability or Permission issue on Windows 7 with XAMPP Windows W AMP/ LAMP Stack.

• I've read about similar issues where permission needed to be changed 775 etc.
  • But, this is Windows 7 x64 with XAMPP 1.8.1 running Wordpress 3.5 Multi-Site Network.
• What kind of permissions changes are needed?
  • Tried all kinds of permission fixes suggested in the comments below.
• Would installing the plugin by uploading the ZIP file work/ apply right permissions?
  • Tried this out as well

• A comment by someone on another thread somewhere about XAMP linked to this ticket

  XAMPP has an annoying issue working with WP Cron and fopen()
  

UPDATES:

Another thing I noticed is that there is a mix of both, forward "/" and backward "\" slashes in the path being accessed by

file_get_contents(C:\Git\HG\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/wp-content/plugins/fontpress/cufon/..) 

I hope that's not the cause, for this thing to fire up.

Some interesting updates and insights:

• I added the suggested PHP code if (!is_dir($font_file)) { /*lines 9-11*/ } to wrap those lines using file-get-contents and it got fixed
• Now I seem to have found another file-get-contents somewhere else causing another similar issue

• Some additional information on issues PHP file-get-contents has on Windows:

  • How to fix PHP Warning: file_get_contents?
  • Comment below from PHP Reference for file-get-contents: seems to fix 2nd issue:

andre-s at home dot nl - 1 year ago

If you are getting a failed to open stream message on your Windows machine check your HOSTS file.

127.0.0.1 localhost

must be in it and the IP6 line must be commented

# ::1 localhost

Here's a snippet of the PHP Code:

// get all the cufons from a folder
function fp_cufon_list() {
    $fonts = array();
    $cufon_list = scandir(FP_DIR."/cufon");

    foreach($cufon_list as $font_file){
        $file_content = file_get_contents(FP_DIR."/cufon/".$font_file); // <- Line No: 9
        if(preg_match('/font-family":"(.*?)"/i',$file_content,$match)){
            $fonts[$match[1]] = basename($font_file);
        }
    }
    return $fonts;
}

Sanitized Folder Tree for "Fontpress" Plugin (to give some idea of Structure):

+---classes
+---css
|   \---ui-wp-theme
|       \---images
+---cufon
|       Candela_Bold_400.font.js
|       ChunkFive_400.font.js
|       Colaborate-Medium_400.font.js
|       Daniel_400.font.js
|       Imperator_400.font.js
|       Luna_400.font.js
|       PT_Sans_Narrow_400.font.js
|       Quicksand_Light_300.font.js
|       Segan_300.font.js
|       tree.txt
|       Vegur_400.font.js
|       
+---fonts
|   +---Bebas_Neue_Regular
|   |       bebasneue-webfont.eot
|   |       bebasneue-webfont.svg
|   |       bebasneue-webfont.ttf
|   |       bebasneue-webfont.woff
|   |       
|   +---Blokletters_Balpen_Balpen
|   +---Capture_it_Regular
|   +---Chelsea_Regular
|   +---Cicle_Gordita
|   +---Colaborate_Thin_Regular
|   +---Fearless_Regular
|   +---GoodDog_Regular
|   +---Journal_Regular
|   +---Ubuntu_Title_Title
|   \---Walkway_SemiBold_Regular
+---img
+---js
|   +---colorpicker
|   |   +---images
|   |   \---js
|   \---iphone_checkbox
|       \---images
|           +---ios-style-checkboxes
|           \---iphone-style-checkboxes
\---temp

Thoughts/ Suggestions?

What can I do to fix this in terms of Permissions or PHP Code?

Answer 1

Assuming you're not using this machine for anything but local dev work, browse to the file or folder in question in Windows Explorer, right click on the file and choose "Properties" and browse to the "Security" tab and make sure that "SYSTEM" and "Everyone" have all permissions on this file and/or folder. You will need to be running Windows Explorer as an administrator.