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- Subject: Fwd: php not reading file properly
- From: "sean greenslade" <zootboysean@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:31:47 -0400
- Delivery-date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:32:06 +0100
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Thanks for the advice. I changed the perms to 777 and changed the user and group to apache, but it still won't open. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Robbert van Andel <swimmer1974@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Does the user your PHP instance runs as have access to the file? It's > possible that it runs under a different users depending on if you're running > the script on the terminal or in a web browser. The function fopen will > return false if the file fails to open. Find out if $fh is equal to false. > While you're debugging, you might consider changing the display errors > setting to see what warning fopen generates if the file fails to open. From > http://us.php.net/fopen > Errors/Exceptions > > If the open fails, the function an error of level *E_WARNING* is > generated. You may use @<http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php>to suppress this warning. > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM, sean greenslade <zootboysean@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> I have this snippet of code that is supposed to read the apache access log >> and display it: >> <?php >> $myFile = "/var/log/httpd/access_log"; >> $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r'); >> $theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile)); >> fclose($fh); >> echo >> "This weeks apache log (clears every sunday morning):". >> substr($theData,0,2000); >> ?> >> For some reason, it displays the logs when I run the php file thru >> terminal: >> php -f /web/apache.php >> >> but not when I access it thru the web. when I browse to it, it just >> displays >> the static text ("This weeks apache log (clears every sunday morning):"), >> not the log text. >> >> Very confused, >> zootboy >> > > -- Feh. -- Feh.
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