Include with Variables, but maybe not

[Anon]

more fun with include'ing for me
I want to know if it's possible to do something like
<? $var = include ("whatever.txt") ?>
and have $var be the contents of whatever.txt so I could i could do a str_replace to the contents of the text file

[thedaver]

probably more appropriate (safe?) to use 'fopen' and read contents into your string var. Otherwise, the include of the text file could create a vulnerability with malicious <?php ?> code embedded in the .txt file.

[Anon]

You could try something like this:

$fielname = "whatever.txt";
$file = fopen($filename,"r");
$var = fread($file,filesize($filename));

Another thing you could do is have the include be a php file ,whatever.php, and have the varible and it's value there.