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Asked: 2026-05-31T02:31:14+00:00

My php script is supposed to simply take a filename and within a specific

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My php script is supposed to simply take a filename and within a specific directory outputs the filename’s contents. The issue is that it does that BUT it apparently once again calls the case resulting in throwing errors, I have tried to replace switch with if/else but still it recalls itself(The code related to case:”1″). Here are the error:

    Warning: fopen(C:/xampp/htdocs/phptut/practice/) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\phptut\practice\fileuploadread.php on line 8

    Warning: fread() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\xampp\htdocs\phptut\practice\fileuploadread.php on line 9

    Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\xampp\htdocs\phptut\practice\fileuploadread.php on line 10

And This is the code:

    switch($_GET['id']){
        case"1":

            {   //here $file gets the pathtothefile + filename
                $file="C:/xampp/htdocs/phptut/practice/" . $_POST["element"];
                $fh=fopen($file,"r");
                $contents=fread($fh,filesize($file));
                fclose($fh);
                   //It does output the $contents at this point
                echo $contents;

            }
            break;
        default:{

            echo"
                <html>
                        <head>
                            <style type='text/css'>
                                fieldset{
                                    background-color:lightblue;
                                    border-color:blue;
                                    width:50%;
                                    margin-left:auto;
                                    margin-right:auto;
                                    margin-top:200px;

                                }
                                legend{
                                    color:blue;

                                }
                            </style>
                        </head>
                        <body>
                            <fieldset>
                                <legend> Upload Your CV </legend>
                                <form method='POST' name='form' action='fileuploadread.php?id=1'>
                                    <input type='input' name='element' size='20' /><br/>
                                    <input type='submit' value='submit...'/>
                                </form>
                            </fieldset> 
                        </body>
                    </html>
                    ";
    }       }
    ?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure what real problem is here, but you should check file pointer is good before using it in fread() and fclose() calls

    $fh=fopen($file,"r");
if ($fh) {
   $contents=fread($fh,filesize($file));
   fclose($fh);
}

    If there is a chance the file does not exist, then check first and deal with it.

    if (file_exists($file)) {
   // do something with file
} else {
   // do something else
}
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