[RESOLVED] Fatal error: Function name must be a string in ....

[c_tcp_ip]

hi everyone, I keep getting the following error when I try to open up an uploaded file.

Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /home/********/public_html/upload_file.php on line 42

I want to use $fgetcsv() on it but I can't seem to pass a proper argument to it. here is my code

/*save the file on the server since by default PHP deletes file on script exit*/
if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0){
    echo "<h2>File upload error; Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"];
	echo "  Please contact your IT admin </h2>";   

    exit();
    }    

/*verify to make sure it doesn't exist already*/
if (file_exists("_Uploaded/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"])){
      echo "<h2> the file " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists." .
	  " Please rename and upload again</h2>";     

      exit();
      }      

else{ /*save uploaded file locally in folder for it */
      move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
      "_Uploaded/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);  

echo "<h2>Thank you the file: " .  $_FILES["file"]["name"];
echo " was successfully uploaded and accepted</h2>"; 
}

[color="red"]/*open the file for reading so we can work on it*/
$uploadedFile = "_Uploaded/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]; 
$fileResource = $fopen($uploadedFile,'r');[/color]

[bradgrafelman]

There is no such function $fgetcsv/b in the code you showed us.

Perhaps you meant [man]fgetcsv/man instead?

EDIT: Same goes for $fopen/b vs. [man]fopen/man.

[c_tcp_ip]

Thank you Brad. lesson learned. I was calling a php function like a variable name by prefacing the function with a '$'.

thanks again.

[bradgrafelman]

Don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is) using the link on the Thread Tools menu above.

Also note that what you were doing is actually valid syntax, e.g.:

$fopen = 'fopen';
$fp = $fopen('file.txt', 'r');

is the same as:

$fp = fopen('file.txt', 'r');

[c_tcp_ip]

bradgrafelman;10982010 wrote:

Don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is) using the link on the Thread Tools menu above.

Also note that what you were doing is actually valid syntax, e.g.:

$fopen = 'fopen';
$fp = $fopen('file.txt', 'r');

is the same as:

$fp = fopen('file.txt', 'r');

Yeah i see what you're saying. The only thing is i didn't assign the function fopen() to a variable and then use it. I called it like a variable.

Either way i called it correctly this time and it took the argument. Still a weird error message though.
Thank you.