failed to open stream: No such file or directory - php

Question

Can anyone help with this one? I am new to web developing and not sure what this error means?
Warning: fopen(images/nophoto.png): failed to open stream: No such
file or directory in /home/u835626360/public_html/remove.html on line
101
can't this file/picture is open you need close
CODE:
$expire=time()-3600;
setcookie("dname","a", $expire);
setcookie("dpode","a", $expire);
}
function delpics($filename)
{
$path_to_file='userpics/';
$old = getcwd(); // Save the current directory
chdir($path_to_file);
$fh = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("can't this file/picture is open you need close ");
fclose($fh);
if (!unlink($filename))
{
echo ("Error deleting $file");
}
else
{
echo ("Deleted $filename");
}
chdir($old); // Restore the old working directory
}

Answer 1

You need to give fopen the full path of the file, and you don't need chdir() at all. Try this version:
$path_to_file='userpics/';
$fh = fopen($path_to_file.$filename, 'w') or die('Permission error');

Answer 2

I was facing same problem. I was thinking file will be created if I use w or w+ but giving me above error.
So problem was we need to create dir before we can create file.
We can get absolute DIR path of file
$dir = dirname($filename);
Create DIR
//if(!is_dir($dir))
mkdir( $dir , 0755, true);
Third parameter is important you want recursively
I know it sound stupid but it may save someone's time so added here

Answer 3

First make the dir manually in your server(if you have one) or local pc(if you dev in local)
Be sure to have write right for apache in your dir (0777 in unix-linux if you wan't to be sure you can do what you wan't and no idea for windows)
and then like it was said give the good path to fopen and not only filename

Answer 4

Try this:
$expire=time()-3600;
setcookie("dname","a", $expire);
setcookie("dpode","a", $expire);
function delpics($filename)
{
$path_to_file='/userpics/';
$old = getcwd(); // Save the current directory
chdir($old.$path_to_file);
$fh = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("can't this file/picture is open you need close ");
fclose($fh);
if (!unlink($filename))
{
echo ("Error deleting $file");
}
else
{
echo ("Deleted $filename");
}
chdir($old); // Restore the old working directory
}