fopen() - File Not Found

[GeorgeLost]

I have been learnig php over the past few months so I'm still new at this. I want to import an Excel csv file into mysql database using php. After trying countless online scripts, I've discovered that my file is not being found by fopen().

$newfile = @fopen("$FileName", "r") or exit(" Could not open file: ");

$FileName is set 2 lines earlier to the csv file which is located in the same subdirectory as the php script.

How can it not find the file?

HELP!!!

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[PHP]$newfile = @fopen("$FileName", "r") or exit(" Could not open file: ");[/PHP]
Get rid of the pointless '@' symbol and it might tell you