Re: Opening up a generic text file

Figured it out on a windows platform you have implicitly specify the path "c:\ "Ron" <allenr@fwd.areur.army.mil> wrote in message news:20020328095831.97061.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I want to open up a generic text file from the same server that my www is > on. > > $file= fopen("The full URL/finance/daily.txt","r"); > $rf=fread($file,100); > $new=substr ($rf,0); > fclose($file); > echo ("<center>$new</center>"); > ?> > > I keep on getting errors.......any suggestions on how I can do this??? > > Warning: fopen("**********", "r") - Invalid argument in > *:\*****\*****\daily.php on line 4 > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in > *:\*****\*****\daily.php on line 5 > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in > *:\*****\*****\daily.php on line 7 > > >