Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!cs.uu.nl!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:22:42 +0200 From: Luuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: file_get_contents() on Windows 7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2k44l8-qlt.ln1@luuk.invalid.lan> Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.101.116.74 X-Trace: 1316971501 news2.news.xs4all.nl 2469 80.101.116.74:34170 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:3207 I am getting an error when using get_file_contents, i simplified my problem as below: C:\TEMP>dir >test C:\TEMP>php -e "echo get_file_contents('test', true); " Could not open input file: echo get_file_contents(test, true); C:\TEMP>dir test Volume in drive C is MyCdrive Volume Serial Number is A0B0-B175 Directory of C:\TEMP 25-09-2011 19:09 1.822 test 1 File(s) 1.822 bytes The question is, why? I also tried to specify full path 'c:\temp\test' or with slashes in stead of back-slased like: 'c:/temp/test' but no luck so far..... -- Luuk