Yet another seemingly cryptic warning message from PHP

[Goldeneye]

Well I fixed that previous problem I had just two days ago which was just a silly mistake of nesting an echo inside an echo.

 

Anyway, I continued to work on my project when I started on user-profiling, and came across this error:

<?php
Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: Stat failed...<A long string of text (not a directory path)>
?>

 

I searched Google for this error, and I didn't come across anything. The strange thing is that it only errors at a certain length of a string that I assigned to a variable and later passed through a class->function() as a parameter.

 

Example: (this works)

<?php
$sideb = '<h3>Foobar</h3><p>Hi lol poiasd poiask;l kw psdoif psdl jaeipro a a;ldjsf eopwi rpoawie rlk paoid idpoas dipoaidpa dpoaid paid apodiapoais pdoi dapoid poifc vk;ksdf oepir sodf;lks ;lskfosd ifopisd ropewir pewripoak d;kkljcv;zkljvf oi uerkjsd  oirue;ijfl;jf</p>';

$layout->output(array('tpl.sideb' => $sideb));
?>

 

Example: (this doesn't work, even though the code is same, I just added one character at the beginning of the $sideb string and I get this error. If I take away one character, it behaves (seemingly) perfectly fine).

 

<?php
$sideb = 'L<h3>Foobar</h3><p>Hi lol poiasd poiask;l kw psdoif psdl jaeipro a a;ldjsf eopwi rpoawie rlk paoid idpoas dipoaidpa dpoaid paid apodiapoais pdoi dapoid poifc vk;ksdf oepir sodf;lks ;lskfosd ifopisd ropewir pewripoak d;kkljcv;zkljvf oi uerkjsd  oirue;ijfl;jf</p>';

$layout->output(array('tpl.sideb' => $sideb));
?>

 

So, my question is: What does this error mean, in general?

[kenrbnsn]

PHP errors usually have a line number associated with them. Please show use the entire error message. Also please post the code for the output() function.

 

Ken

[redarrow]

you got a L there in front m8....

 

$sideb = 'L<h3>Foobar</h3><p>Hi lol poiasd poiask;l kw psdoif psdl jaeipro a a;ldjsf eopwi rpoawie rlk paoid idpoas dipoaidpa dpoaid paid apodiapoais pdoi dapoid poifc vk;ksdf oepir sodf;lks ;lskfosd ifopisd ropewir pewripoak d;kkljcv;zkljvf oi uerkjsd  oirue;ijfl;jf</p>';

 

[corbin]

stat is a system function, and it only fails under certain conditions:

 

The stat() function shall fail if:

 

[EACCES]

Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.

[EIO]

An error occurred while reading from the file system.

[ELOOP]

A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution of the path argument.

[ENAMETOOLONG]

The length of the path argument exceeds {PATH_MAX} or a pathname component is longer than {NAME_MAX}.

[ENOENT]

A component of path does not name an existing file or path is an empty string.

[ENOTDIR]

A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

[EOVERFLOW]

The file size in bytes or the number of blocks allocated to the file or the file serial number cannot be represented correctly in the structure pointed to by buf.

 

The stat() function may fail if:

 

[ELOOP]

More than {SYMLOOP_MAX} symbolic links were encountered during resolution of the path argument.

[ENAMETOOLONG]

As a result of encountering a symbolic link in resolution of the path argument, the length of the substituted pathname string exceeded {PATH_MAX}.

[EOVERFLOW]

A value to be stored would overflow one of the members of the stat structure.

 

From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/stat.html

 

So, chances are, the file doesn't exist, or you don't have the correct permissions on it.