get_file_contents does not work with existing local files

[techdude]

Hi.

 

I have php code that attempts to read a file into a string using get_file_contents(), but it claims the file does not exist. I do the same thing in another php file (same directory) and it works. Only difference is that the first file has the call in a function.

 

File one:

$email_template = "../email_templates/new_instructor.html";

echo file_exists($email_template);

$message = file_get_contents($email_template);//get the email template

 

File two:

	$email_template = "../email_templates/new_instructor.html";

echo file_exists($email_template);

echo file_get_contents($email_file);

 

plz help.'

thanx

[techdude]

By the way, this one beats me.

[kenrbnsn]

In the second example, you're looking for a file contained in the variable $email_file which you haven't assigned a value to, so you get an error.

 

Ken

[techdude]

Excuse me for the typo. The second one does have the value set.

$email_template = "../email_templates/new_instructor.html";

echo file_exists($email_template);

echo file_get_contents($email_template);

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Only difference is that the first file has the call in a function.

 

^^^ You would need to post actual code that demonstrates/reproduces the problem.

 

Posting two partial snippets of code, taken out of context of where they work and where they don't, without even identifying which one is which, doesn't help.

[techdude]

The code was

 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

file_get_contents("Auth.php");

 

The include_dir contained the /usr/share/pear folder.

 

Found the solution, it was blocked by an open_basedir path, but because it was an include without a path, it DID NOT PRODUCE THE USUAL ERROR THAT "Open basedir restriction was in effect". Kind of a wierd effect, but it worked to add that file to the open base dir. I wonder why it fails silently.

 

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techdude