Opening a file

Hello everyone,

I just found your site through the coding contest, but I had a question so I thought I'd test you all out

What I'm doing is opening a file and saving it's contents to a string, using the following code:



In this case, the access variable is

However, the problem I'm running into is getting it read the file. The path variable is set to the path off the web server (the virtual path), so if you had an address like:

http://www.somewhere.com/the/place/file.html, the path variable would be 'the/place' and so the access variable would be 'the/place/file.html'.

Now, I've realized that you have to change the directory to the root directory, so before I attempt to open the file, I have this code:



So, I'm thinking this should work, because it worked when I did a is_dir check on the path directory (to make sure it was existant), but, I'm not sure why it won't read the file correctly.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know, thank you!

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