Brian Dragoo <bdragoo@thomasaquins.edu> reported LDAP Explorer returned:

Warning: fopen ('/home/httpd/html/tmptmp/LEOOOEYsTr','w+') - No such file or directory in /home/httpd/html/LDAPExplorer/tree.php3 on line 187

after upgraded his PHP to version 4.0.3.

The reason is that PHP developers has changed the behaviour of function tempnam (). A test script can identify the difference between the old and latest version:

<?php

require ('template/header.inc');

require ('default.php');

$tmpfname = tempnam ('.', 'FOO');

echo 'tmpfname = $tmpfname';

echo '<BR>';

require ('template/footer.inc');

?>

In old version of PHP, it returns:

tmpfname = ./FOOL1aqdZ

In version 4.0.3x, result is:

tmpfname = /tmp/FOOL1aqdZ

But PHP 4.0.3x on Solaris box returns:

tmpfname = ./FOOL1aqdZ

A quick fix of the problem is change the configuration in default.php file from:

$default->tmpdir = '/tmp';

to:

$default->tmpdir = '/';

Last Modified: 24 November 2000