Strange Issue with PHP's fopen, “Numerical result out of range”

Question

I'm trying to open a file using fopen, and I am getting the error:

Warning:  fopen(/var/www/views/images/favicon.gif): failed to open stream:
Numerical result out of range

The file exists at the provided path. I couldn't find any documentation on the error to fix it. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Turns out I was trying to use

fopen($file, FOPEN_READ)

When all I had to do was change it to:

fopen($file, 'r')

And that fixed it.

Answer 2

Can you access the file directly? What kind of information does getimagesize() return on the file? It seems really odd and I'm having no luck getting that result.