Detailed error on fopen

Question

I\'m using fopen to read from a file

$fh = fopen($path, \'r\') or die(\'Could not open file\');

Now I contantly get error Could not open fi

Answer 1

For php versions prior to 5.2 (lacking error_get_last()) you can use track_errors.

ini_set('track_errors', 1);
$fh = fopen('lalala', 'r');
if ( !$fh ) {
  echo 'fopen failed. reason: ', $php_errormsg;
}

see also: http://de.php.net/reserved.variables.phperrormsg