Re: use fopen unknown resource

On 8/28/21 2:55 PM, ourdiaspora wrote:
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> On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
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>> You are asking the user to select a file, so there should be some sort
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>> of file reference at that point, correct?
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> This is what causes confusion. If a user has a file named 'mydatafile.csv', why does the manual make reference to open 'test.csv'???:

Because that is a 'dummy' file name for the purposes of illustrating
what sort of information needs to be provided. Just substitute in
whatever file name is actually being fetched in the production code.

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> https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php
> "
> ...
> if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
> ...
> "
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Adrian Klaver
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