Re: is_readable fails with a variable parameter

var_dump($file_path_name); What do you get? On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tommy Peterson <stpetersn@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am using a PHP API that uses is_readable as a check before a particular > function does anything. The problem that I am having is that if I do > something like > > is_readable($file_path_name); > > my code terminates as is_readable says it cannot read the file or there is > a permissions issue. But if I go to the file path/name in $file_path_name > (echoing it out to make sure) I can see and open the file. > > If I edit the same code and do something like > > is_readable("/path/to/the/file/filename.zip") > > the same code executes just fine. > > At first I thought the variable was some how getting over written. But it > isn't. It is just somehow the variable is not be interpolated correctly by > is_readable like a hard coded path/file name is. > > Any thoughts? > > This is on Linux. And this is PHP 5.4.43 >