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.