Working on PHP site navigation/can't get it to work

Alicew

I've been working on the webmonkeys site management for practice and can't get it to work. For some reason I continue to get error on line 125 which is
$sfp = fopen("$docroot/stories/$story/meta.lst","r");
I've inserted some Print functions so you can see what docroot is and stories is a directory under public $story is storyid and meta.lst is text file that includes "title=VRW25Man Russell Collins VRW 2.5 Manual sections on" which is also suppose to be the link to the first page. I know I'm missing something somewhere and I've hacked the code quite a bit. Here is the site www.hibernianwaves.com can anyone see anthing glaringly wrong? The code is this

autocolismo

First of all who do you get $story value?
You dont have any value in there

Warning: fopen("/services/webpages/h/i/hibernianwaves.com/public/stories// meta.lst", "r")

Something's wrong with your code

PHP-Editors_com

Try it with a relative file link. For example instead of having:

$sfp = fopen("$docroot/stories/$story/meta.lst","r");

have:

$sfp = fopen("../stories/$story/meta.lst","r");

or whatever the relative link may be.

good luck

[edit]
well spotted autocolismo... thats probably the problem..
[/edit]

Alicew

thanks for the relative I'll try that too. Yes I know $story is evasive for me too. From the code this is what it's suppose to be but it's always set to 0, if I manually change it to 1 or 2 than the right information comes up but still no links. First I have to figure out the $story problem. Ok, as far as I can tell $story is first used here line 113 through line 125
$story = trim($fline);
print "<tr><td>";
if ($story == "$storyid")
{
print "<b>";
}
else
{
print "<a href=\"$root/$section/$story\">";
print "[$root],[$section],[$story]";
}

$sfp = fopen("../stories/$story/meta.lst","r");
while ($sfline = fgets($sfp, 256))

$fline is defined in lines 22-26

$fp = fopen("$docroot/meta/sections.lst","r");

while ($fline = fgets($fp, 256))
{
print "<p>fline=[$fline]</p>\n";

Have you ever had that feeling that you can almost understand it..
Thanks...