You probably have a owner and/or permissions problem. Try setting the dir to 777.

Read fopen() in the php manual. There are dozens of user notes on the subject.

Delta Storm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a while back saying of my problem...
>
> I tried to read a file I tried in a couple of ways and i posted a
> question on this newsgroup and a couple of people helped me (btw, thank
> you for help) and they suggested a few other ways I tried all possible
> ways and i could read a file it says:
>
> Failed to open stream! No such file or directory exists
>
> while im 100% sure the file exists
>
> path of the file: C:\Program Files\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\test_folder\test1.txt
>
> htdocs is apache's root directory I tried setting the file there
> C:\Program Files\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs
>
> but still the same I have tried the URL approach the above aproach the
> plain "test1.txt" aproach as to relative to the DOCUMENT_ROOT i have
> tried everything but still it doesn't work
>
> I tried to use echo is_readable and file_exists and it returned
> negative, that the file does not exists but i say again the file does
> exist I didn't spelled it wrong I have checked a hundred times but
> always the same answer!
>
> PLEASE HELP, I'm learning PHP by a book and I have a whole section about
> file reading,writing... And I dont want to skip any part of the book! :)
>
> If you need more info, I'll be happy to answer any question.
>
> THANK YOU in advance!