Opening up file for inclusion in PHP -

this piece of code:

$filepath = __dir__.'/code_twitter_common_config.php'; echo $filepath; 

produces following:

/users/mine/google drive/php/parnassus/public_html/apps/code/twitter/code_twitter_common_config.php 

this piece of code:

if (file_exists($filepath)) {     echo 'file exists'; } else {     echo 'file not exist'; } 

produces:

file exists 

this piece of code:

$string = file_get_contents($filepath); echo $string; 

produces nothing (no error codes... nothing).

i tried doing:

$string = file_get_contents("\"".$filepath."\""); echo $string; 

which produced:

warning: file_get_contents("/users/mine/google drive/php/parnassus/public_html/apps/code/twitter/code_twitter_common_config.php"): failed open stream: no such file or directory in /users/mine/google drive/php/parnassus/public_html/apps/code/twitter/itb_statuses.php on line 19 

i checked file permissions, , entire google drive folder set 0777. ideas? local mac.

if want execute code in file, use

include($filepath); 

if want display contents of file, use:

$string = file_get_contents($filepath); echo htmlentities($string);