Re: [PHP] A Strange Problem

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi gang:
>
> I have a very strange problem.
>
> I can use this statement in one folder:
>
>         $fcontents = file('docs/admin-email.txt');
>
> But in a different folder with an exact path having
> 'docs/admin-email.txt', I get:
>
> Warning: file(/docs/admin-email.txt) [function.file]: failed to open
> stream: No such file or directory in <cut> on line 83
>
>
Are you sure it is the same string? It looks like this one has an extra '/'
at the beginning?


> This has got me really puzzled.
>
> I have confirmed these are the exact same folders and files, except only
> in two different places on the server. Both are one level down from root.
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
>
>
Else it could be permission item, I think the user executing the PHP script
(www-user or such for apache), needs to have execute rights on all
directories up to the file, to be able to read the file listing.

- Matijn