fopen() not working

Question

I'm want to read a simple string from a text file which is around 3-4 mb but fopen() fails ("can't open file" from die() is called). Here's the code:

clearstatcache();
$fh = fopen("/my/path/to/file.txt", "r") or die("can't open file");
$sql = fread($fh,filesize("/my/path/to/file.txt"));

Answer 1

Have you firstly checked to see if the file exists?

if (!file_exists("/my/path/to/file.txt") { 
    die('File does not exist');
}

clearstatcache();

$fh = fopen("/my/path/to/file.txt", "r") or die("can't open file");
$sql = fread($fh,filesize("/my/path/to/file.txt"));