On 11 November 2005 20:52, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> $theFile = fopen("docs/InstallationInstructionMaster.txt", "r") ||
> die;
You need "or" not || here. The operator priorities are such that the above means
$theFile = (fopen("docs/InstallationInstructionMaster.txt", "r") || die);
which assigns TRUE to $the File when the fopen() succeeds, rather than the file handle. You can't have error reporting turned up very high, or this:
> while(!feof($theFile)){
> $theLine = fgets($theFile, 4096);
> echo $theLine . "<br>\n";
> }
would be throwing all sorts of warnings about the invalid file handle. I'm guessing that feof(TRUE) returns NULL as well as throwing the warning, so this should be an infinite loop echoing just linebreaks. Oh, wait....! ;)
On the other hand, the version using "or" works out to be:
($theFile = fopen("docs/InstallationInstructionMaster.txt", "r")) or die;
which assigns the result of fopen() to $theFile, and then executes die if it's false -- which is much more satisfactory. ;)
Cheers!
Mike
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