[Xitami] PHP fopen

[General]

I am having a problem with the PHP command fopen. I have upgraded to PHP
4.4.4 and that didn't seem to help.

I am trying to display a jpg image using this

$fp = fopen($_CONF['path'] . 'plugins/captcha/images/static/' . $filename,
'r');

$filename is the name of the jpg.

Has anyone had any problems with fopen?

Ron