$string = include("file");

[Anon]

Is there any way to assign the contents of a text/html file with some php to a string variable? I'd like to be able to do something like:

$string = include("file.inc");

This doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any suggestions.

[khaine]

there is a way but it nots that easy. try this.

<?php
$filename="file.in";
$fpr=fopen($filename, "r") or die();
$string=fread($fpr, filesize($filename));
fclose($fpr);
?>

$string will then have the entire contents of the file file.inc.

Mark.

[Anon]

Thanks Mark.

Actually, what I ended up doing was:

$string = join("", file("file.inc"));

[kparker]

Mark's way is certainly going to perform better, if all you want is the contents into a single string variable. Your way (though fewer lines of code) creates an array from the file and then immediately tears it down again. Lots of memory allocation/deallocation going on...