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

Yes.
PHP has detailed error message for you.
You just have to turn it on.

To dislay it on the screen add these 2 lines at the top of the script:

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Or if you want it to be logged instead,

ini_set('log_errors',1);
ini_set('display_errors',0);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Also note that using die() is very bad practice.