new to php, and a bit lost on this specific problem

[dogsoldier]

I'm just delving into this stuff, and am not sure where to start in fixing the problem I'm about to lay out. If the information I provided isn't sufficient, then I apologize. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

First off, I'm getting these two error messages on a page:

1-Warning: fopen ("/usr/www/tipsfork/html/inc/admin/outgoing_email.txt", "r")- No such file or directory in /home/www/tipsforkids/modules/user/SendNewUserEmail.php3 on line 13 Error opening datafile

2-Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/www/tipsforkids/modules/user/SendNewUserEmail.php3 on line 33

And...here's the php file they are referencing...the one with an error on lines 13 and 33:

<?

function SendNewUserEmail ($user_email, $user_fname, $user_mname, $user_lname, $user_login, $user_pwd) {

$subject = "Tips for Kids";
$user_name  = $user_fname." ".$user_mname." ".$user_lname;
$user_email = "To: ".$user_name." <".$user_email.">";
$mail_header = "From: Tips for Kids <[e-mail]>\n";

// get mail content from text file now.
$mail_content = "";
$dataFile = "/usr/www/tipsfork/html/inc/admin/outgoing_email.txt";
$myFile = fopen ($dataFile, "r");
if (!$myFile) {
	// error
	?>
	Error opening datafile.
	<?
} else {
	// loop through the data
	$dataLine = "";
	$lineCount = 0;
	while (!feof($myFile)) {
	    $dataLine = fgets($myFile, 1000);
	    if (chop($dataLine) == "1234567890") {
            $mail_content = $mail_content."Username: ".$user_login."\n";
            $mail_content = $mail_content."Password: ".$user_pwd."\n";
        } else {
            $mail_content = $mail_content.$dataLine;                        
        }            		    
    }
}
$closeReturn = fclose($myFile);

// send the email.
$send = mail($user_email, $subject, $mail_content, $mail_header);

}

?>

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Obviously, I'm extremely new to this and am anxious to learn. Self-teaching myself this stuff and it's slow going. Thanks again for any help!

[RobNewYork]

Make sure the user that your webserver (and PHP) are running as have access to the directory/file you're trying to read.

[dogsoldier]

..but, I'm not sure how to go about doing that. When you say to make sure that the server "has access" to that file. What type of access do you mean? What should I be looking for to verify that there is access?

Thank you for replying!

[RobNewYork]

Tell us a little more about what operating system and webserver you're running. The answer is different depending on these things...

[dogsoldier]

Rob...does this help?

The OS with our host is Unix...here's some server info.:

Linux (RedHat 7.2 based )
Apache 1.3.x

I hope so. From what you're telling me, it sounds like it may be a problem with our host, rather than any coding error?

Once again...thank you for your prompt responses, and I apologize for my noviceness!

[pcp]

hello,

The only thing I could say to you is to check to see if you are supplying the correct path to the file and that the file name is correct. I have had the same kind of error messages and it was solved by checking the above mentioned things and finding that I had mistakenly put in the wrong path or file name.

pcp