[Resolved] fopen() results

G-Net

I'm running PHP 4.2.3 on a Windows 2000 box running IIS. I'm trying to use fopen() to simply open a text file at the moment. Once I get it working, then I'll need to later post a form and retrieve the results. For now, I can't get anything to work. :p

I'm trying to open a simple text file, using:

$wddxText = fopen("http://testing.switchol.com/signup/test.txt", "r");

All I ever get (tryng any URL), is:

Resource id #3

Any insight into why this would be happening? TIA!

laserlight

fopen() returns a pointer to the opened file.

How exactly do you use $wddxText ?

Common uses include:

$text = fread($wddxText, filesize("http://testing.switchol.com/signup/test.txt"));

G-Net

I left out the fread() cuz all of the examples I saw used local files. So I tried it, and get:

stat failed for http://testing.switchol.com/signup/test.txt (errno=2 - No such file or directory)

The file does exist, and outputs just "Test text." if you call it up in the browser. Thanks.

laserlight

are you trying to open a remote file?

G-Net

Yeah. The file I'm testing with is on the same server, but I'm using the full URL, as the real code will be accessing a remote file via HTTP.

Thanks.

laserlight

Set filename to a local file, (e.g. test.txt), then test.

If it works, then the problem probably lies with the path to the remote file.

If it doesnt, then fix that part first.

Chizzad

could the permissions of the text file be part of the problem?? they should be 777.

Chizzad

thegraham

<?php
// open file
$hand = fopen("http://testing.switchol.com/signup/test.txt", r);
// read [upto] 1mb of data from file
$data = fread($hand, 1048576);
echo $data;
?>

This works fine on Linux, I'm sure it should work with win2k too.

Thomas

G-Net

Thomas:

Worked great. Thanks for the info. 🙂

thegraham

pleasure....

mark as resolved.
happy phping 🙂

THOMAS

G-Net

Well, now I feel dumb. How do I mark it that way? Just one of the message icons?

As for phping, I'm liking it. I'm used to doing everything in ColdFusion, but I'm very happy with PHP, and it blows away how powerful it is, yet it's free. Currently converting my personal web site to it.:p