[problem]
You want to open save the contents of a file, into a variable in PHP.
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[solution]
Simple demo on opening and reading contents of files in PHP.
Script under example tab takes filename as a parameter, then opens it read-only and reads contents in data variable.
Then it echoes a header and footer line, with the data in the middle.
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[example]
<?php
$filename=$argv[1];
$FH=fopen("$filename","r") or die("could not open $filenamen");
while(!feof($FH)) { $data.=fgets($FH); }
fclose($FH);
echo "###### beginning of $filename ######n";
echo "$data";
echo "n###### end of $filename ######n";
exit(0);
?>
Here is a run through:
$ php -q readfiles.php rhyme.txt
###### beginning of rhyme.txt ######
Mary had a little lamb,
It was always bleating.
###### end of rhyme.txt ######
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[reference]
[tags]PHP file handling, PHP Coding School[/tags]
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