Re: Problem with file reading

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!");
        $data = fread($fh, filesize($file)) or die ("Could not read               file!");
        fclose($fh);
        echo $data;

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. Also, depending on your PHP version you're probably better off using file_get_contents instead of fopen/fread/fclose. -Stut