Question

$file=file('DATA.txt');

I keep getting “failed to open stream. No such file or directory in …”. This works when I run it on a server and browser. But the error occurs when I run the script using command line.

Answer 1

First of all take a deep breath and a tea 😉

The news is: DATA.txt is only a file-name.

A file normally is placed in a directory. As stupid as this sounds, well, as stupid this is: What is the directory?

The answer: the current working directory. This differs between servers and CLI.

So better add your directory as well:

$name = 'DATA.txt';
$dir = 'C:/';
$path = $dir.$name;
$file = file($path);

Hope this is helpful.