File not being found - What checks would you recommend ?

habbardone

Hello,
I have a error which shouldn´t be occuring 😕

The snippet of code is :

[code=php]
$path = "/home/com567b/$Db_work_dir/";
$orig_file = $path.'original.txt';
$work_file = $path.'work.txt';

$input_art = file_get_contents($work_file);
[/code]

The error:

Warning: file_get_contents(/home/com567b/inline_skates/work.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/com567b/public_html/auto_build_theos.php on line 255

When I look at my server with FileZilla, my workfile is most definitely there!

/projects/inline_skates/work.txt

Can anyone suggest what I can do here ?

Can I perform another check to display if the program can see the file ?
Could it be a permission thing ?
Permissions are 777 on this file and the directory.

Thanks for any ideas 🙂

Dave

Weedpacket

The paths don't match:
[font=monospace]
/home/com567b/inline_skates/work.txt
/projects/inline_skates/work.txt
[/font]

NogDog

Regardless of whether the above reply fixes things, there are file functions you can use to test for the existence and readability (or writeability) of a file, e.g. file_exists() and is_readable().

habbardone

Thanks for your replies.
Both are helpful - seems like I was staring at the path and couldn´t
see that a sub-directory was missing.

sneakyimp

It's worth pointing out that you are using an absolute path rather than a relative path (see article on paths). If you know the path of the file relative to your PHP script's current working directory, you can use a relative path. You can get the cwd with [man]getcwd[/man].

Sometimes when you are delivering your files to the server using ftp, it can be difficult to know where things are actually located. You can always output the path of a file with the constant FILE.