note 59701 deleted from function.fopen by nlopess

Note Submitter: michael at NAUGHTfroodSPAM dot org ---- Passing in an unexpected value for the second argument, $mode, will produce weird effects - in my case, I received error messages like: Warning: 'fopen(/path/to/file): failed to open stream: Success' fopen() will still return FALSE in these cases. This has particular relevance to applications making use of classes in PEAR's "File" package; you won't see the error message (because of @ suppression in File::_getFilePointer()), and it's very likely that you don't have the FILE_MODE_x constants defined (I've found you have to explicitly require/include File.php; including something that then includes File.php won't define the constants in the calling scope). If the constants are undefined and you're not monitoring NOTICE-level errors, then you're going to miss the one that shows the undefined constant being assumed to be "FILE_MODE_whatever."