readfile: permission denied

[andrew_embassy]

Hey all- first time poster. Glad to be on board.

running: Win2000NT / IIS 5 / PHP 5

I'm using a pretty simple script to pull up a certain article via a url like this: article.php?article=big%20fatty%20article.htm

		<?php
		$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
//		echo "<b>HEY here's the $article</b>";
		$articleStr = readfile("articles/" . $article);
		echo $articleStr
		?> 

but I get "Warning: readfile(articles/) [function.readfile]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Documents and Settings\localmachinename.DOMAIN.000\Desktop\AAA\MnC\ff\article.php on line 58"

And for some reason, now that I look at it I realize I'm not even getting the querystring either, when I uncomment the HEY line.

It works beautifully on the server, however, so it's my settings somewhere. I did a search and found people talking about chmod'ing folders- what's that all about?

Thoughts?

[wilku]

If you want to see a varible's value, echo it like

echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

As for readfile - $article is empty (doesn't contain anything). You can see that readfile looks for "articles/", not "articles/article_name.php".
If article is named in query string than use $_GET to get it:

$article = $_GET['article'];