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dopee · #1 06-May-2004, 03:32

right so I have a new.php file which is mainly html text, other than the include: <?php include("admin/showleftmenu.php");?>.

Now when I run new.php from the broswer, it gets stuck in a loop cos the showleftmenu.php file gives the following errors:

Warning: fopen(): Unable to access lmenu.txt in /new/admin/showleftmenu.php on line 7
Warning: fopen(lmenu.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /new/admin/showleftmenu.php on line 7

etc etc.

At first I thought it was cos the lmenu.txt file had the wrong permissions but I changed that and i'm still having probs.

This is the code in the showleftmenu.php file:

PHP Code:


<?php

// php script used to display content of text file
$leftMenu = "lmenu.txt";
$lfilePointer = fopen($leftMenu, "r+");
while (!feof($lfilePointer))
{
             $line = fgets($lfilePointer, 4096);
             print $line;
}
fclose($lfilePointer);
?>

Anyone pls??

JdS · #2 06-May-2004, 10:07

Dopee, I really don't get it why you need to include ONE file (i.e. showleftmenu.php) which in turn is ONLY reading in a text file. This is what I don't understand...

Get straight to the point; simply include in the text file. So inside new.php:

PHP Code:


<?php
// DISABLE this...
//include("admin/showleftmenu.php");

// replace that with
require_once( './admin/lmenu.txt' );

// the rest of your code...
?>

If that idea doesn't suit you, then the reason you might be getting that "warning" message is cause your path is wrong... inside showleftmenu.php:

PHP Code:


// php script used to display content of text file
// use an absolute path for this file since this INCLUDE file is possibly included from anywhere?
$leftMenu = "/home/dopee/public_html/admin/lmenu.txt";
$lfilePointer = fopen($leftMenu, "r+");
while (!feof($lfilePointer))
{
             $line = fgets($lfilePointer, 4096);
             print $line;
}
fclose($lfilePointer);

.. utltimately you can control the include folder in php.ini but this is something you probably want to do at a later stage.

dopee · #3 06-May-2004, 11:03

hey jds thanx for the reply.

Yes I understand now...I added

$leftMenu = "lmenu.txt";
$lfilePointer = fopen($leftMenu, "r+");
while (!feof($lfilePointer))
{
$line = fgets($lfilePointer, 4096);
print $line;
}
fclose($lfilePointer);

?>
to my new.php file and it works fine now.

But now I have another ques:
In this code:
<?php
require_once( './admin/lmenu.txt' );
?>

Is this better code to use instead of opening,reading, and closing the text file?

JdS · #4 07-May-2004, 04:27

I would GUESS so but to be honest I haven't really made any tests to see if that is indeed true. However, just counting the functions required to open, read (,print/echo) and close a file rather than just include it sounds a lot more complicated to me.

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