Weird fopen error

[Cagez]

A buddy of mine is getting a really weird fopen error... This code:

<?php
$fh  = fopen("news.txt","r");
$news = fread($fh,filesize("news.txt"));
?>

is returning this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fopen() in /srv/sites/yupadog/www/index.php on line 114

I don't know what to tell him... His PHP info is here: http://yupadog.com/info.php

Any idea's?

[viper21634]

did you paste the code into the board?? if so you have a doubble space after your first var, you might try taking that out

[Cagez]

No, it wouldn't be that... Your supposed to put multiple spaces after vars to promote readability --they wouldn't advise it if in some circumstances it made errors... But I'll try it anyway.

[matt_4013]

Hi there!

You'll notice that in your configure string, there is '--enable-safe-mode'. I'd say this is your problem.

[Cagez]

But further down there's

safe_mode off off