Simple file open echos Resource id #2

nelsons

and file open was supposed to be so simple....

$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

$fp = fopen("/usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/text.txt", "r");

echo $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
echo ("<p>");
echo $fp;

Results in the folllowing being echoed to the browser:

/usr/home/digital/htdocs

Resource id #2

I have a simple text file am trying to output. Linux/apache. It is called text.txt in the /test directory.

tekky

$fp is a file pointer.... a resource ID

you want [man]fread[/man] or [man]file_get_contents[/man]

links from those 2 will also give you some other posibilities.... but if you are only looking to display the contents, fread is the hardest way...

nelsons

Tried the fread() - as the get_file_contents() may have space issues:

$filename = "test.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
echo $contents;
fclose($handle);

results in:

Warning: fopen(test.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/open.php on line 3

Warning: filesize(): Stat failed for test.txt (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/open.php on line 4

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/open.php on line 4

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/open.php on line 6

I just looked yet again, and the text file is there, named exact w/text in it. Damn, wasting another day on a simple BS thing.

leatherback

Hi,

Hm.. You see the error? See what it sais?

In general, it is good practice to solve one error at a time, starting with the first, since the second, third, .. error may be th eresult of hte first.

The first error in htis case is

Warning: fopen(test.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/open.php on line 3

Basically telling you that htere is no file called test.txt in the directory. The directory it looks for it, is the same as the script is in, unless you define a path.

So now it has looked for:

/usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/test.txt

Please make sure the file is there

nelsons

Which compounds the oddity - its there.

Am looking at it now. Spelling is correct, case is same. And a file_exists() shows the files not there, even though it is.

laserlight

Save the contents of the file locally, and test with "w+" instead of "r".
After that, switch back to "r" and see what happens.

nelsons

Danmed typos. Working well now with the correct spelling on the filename.

Its always something simple. Had to walk away from it for a few minutes.

Thanks to all. Learned something new today.

nelsons

To simplfy it all - further study provided this as an efficient means:

readfile('/usr/home/digital/htdocs/test/text.html');

Does it all - it even echos the file out. Hope this saves someone some time.