Another PHP require_once issue

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require_once () or die() not working

I try to include a file with require_once and i get:

Warning: require_once(1) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/phpscrape/index.php on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/phpscrape/index.php on line 3

I can do a cat /var/www/phpscrape/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php which means the path is correct.

The permissions are www-data:www-data same as index.php which is executing. To be sure i also set chmod 777 but that didnt help either.

The command line is:

<? php
require_once("/var/www/phpscrape/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php") or die("no such file");

Answer 1

  require_once("var/www/phpscrape/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php") or die("no such file");

Without the / at the beginning

If not working try:

 require_once("phpscrape/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php") or die("no such file");

Answer 2

You are hitting a weird side effect of the fact that require is not a real function, but a language construct.

require does not require its parameter to be wrapped into parentheses.

Therefore, what require interprets as the parameter is the full rest of the line:

(("/var/www/phpscrape/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php") or die("no such file"))

which equals 1.

I would either just drop the die() (require will die on error anyway) or do a file_exists() check beforehand.