fclose() error

[-Zeus-]

I have a php script that reads in files and echoes the output, but I am getting a strange error:

 

$handle = opendir(rank);
while (($file = readdir($handle)) == true) {
  $file = 'rank/' . $file;
  $open = fopen("$file",r);
  $data = fread($open,filesize("$file"));
  fclose("$open");
  echo $data;
}
closedir($handle);

It runs fine, and I get the output, but the server logs say:

fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /**********/includes/common.inc(1344) : eval()'d code on line 6.

[WolfRage]

You are trying to make PHP evaluate a stream reference, which is a impossibility.

<?php
fclose($open);
?>

[-Zeus-]

I got this from the php reference on fclose() at http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php

 

$handle = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');
fclose($handle);

 

Isn't that what I am doing?

[WolfRage]

Putting a variable in double qoutes, puts php in evaluation mode. But you can not evaluate a stream reference, because it is a memory reference to a file. Either pass the file this way:

<?php
fclose('my_file/text.php');
?>

or this way:

<?php
fclose($file_pointer);
?>

but do not combine them.

[PHP Monkeh]

  fclose("$open");

 

Remove the quotes around $open so it looks like this:

 

fclose($open);