Re: [PHP] Problem with file reading

# stuttle@xxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-05 17:17:46 +0000:
Roman Neuhauser wrote:
# stuttle@xxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-05 16:34:41 +0000:
Delta Storm wrote:
I'm a beginner and i'm still learning PHP and I got a problem:

$file = "http://localhost/test_folder/test1.txt";; //I have
also tried "test_folder/test1.txt" and "text1.txt"

$fh = fopen($file, "r") or die("Could not open file!");

The file exist, I'm using apache server on my PC for practicing and
the file is located in the servers root folder on the subfolder
"test_folder".

Is there a reason why you're trying to access it through a URL? If not,
please don't.

The file path needs to be relative to the current file. So if your PHP
file is in the root, "test_folder/test1.txt" should work. If your PHP
file is in a folder named code in the root, "../test_folder/text1.txt"
should work.

Arent' you confusing this with something else? fopen() is affected
by the current working directory of the process calling it. What kind of
"root" are you talking about? The filesystem root, "/"?

The OP referred to the "servers root folder". Now stop nit-picking and
go back to quoting standards.

I'm not nitpicking. If the webserver process (assuming mod_php) runs in
a different directory, fopen("relative/to/documentroot/path.txt") won't
help him at all, and as far as I can tell, it's quite common for web
servers to run with pretty much any cwd, often / or /var/empty (these
are local filesystem paths).

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