including files into other files

[Anon]

From my PHP program I write to file. During that writing I need to include the text of several other files.

At the moment the code looks something like:
fwrite($myfile, "a lot of text");
$fp = fopen("include1.txt", "r");
$data = fread($fp, 100000);
fclose($fp);
fwrite($myfile, "$data");
fwrite($myfile, "a lot more text");
$fp = fopen("include2.txt", "r");
etc.
etc.

Now I think that there must be a smarter way. I found functions like file(), readfile() and fpassthru(). They come close, but they can't do what I want.

Does anyone know a solution for this?

Thanks,
Wim

[Anon]

use the file() command. it's great for loading files from the server.

Try something like this:

<?php
// load all include files into an array
$includeFiles = array('include1.txt','include2.txt','include3.txt');
// get path to written file
$myFile = '/path/to/filename';

// open a file pointer to $myFile
$fp = fopen($myFile,'w');

// loop through inc_files array
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($includeFiles); $i++) {
// get contents of inc file
$aFile = join('',file($includeFiles[$i]));
// write inc file to file pointer
fwrite($fp,$aFile,strlen($aFile));
}
// close file pointer
fclose($fp);
?>