Reading a .dat file as "rb" read binary
- by donpal
I have a web-accessible php script that accesses a folder above the webroot (not web accessible) called \folder\. This is done via setting the path to \folder\ in .htaccess the usual way so that \folder\ becomes part of the project.
\folder\ contains
a .php script (communicates with the web-accessible script inside the webroot)
some .inc files (used by the .php in the same folder, above the webroot)
a dat file (used by the .inc in the same folder, above the webroot)
All files are accessible to each other as needed:
the web-accessible php inside the webroot can communicate with the php above the webroot
the php above the webroot can communicate with the inc in the same folder
But the inc above the webroot can't communicate with the dat in the same folder, and I have no idea why that's the case
The inc myinc.inc is supposed to open the dat mydat.dat in the same folder like this
fopen('mydat.dat', "rb");
but I get an error that no file called mydat.dat exists inside \folder\myinc.inc. Of course it does not, the .dat is sibling to .inc and is not supposed to be inside it. Why is php expecting to find the .dat file inside the .inc.
The stranger thing is that if I move the .dat in the web-accessible folder, it becomes readable now.
Any ideas why php is trying to find the .dat inside the .inc?
