how to open a file without using a href

[kikidonc]

Hi,
I already posted a message but nobody seems to have a solution :-(
Maybe somebody could tell me how to open a file without using the a href tags???
I hope somebody will help.

All I could get for now is some strange symbols (with readfile(), fgets(), etc...). I really need help!

Thanks a lot in advance,
Fred.

[Anon]

try fopen()

[kikidonc]

I used fopen() before fgets()...
Fopen() only returns a resource, nothing else :-(

The thing is that the file I try to open is not on the website root directory (size too large) but on another root (UNIX System).
Since I can't allow everybody to mount as disk this directory, I can't use simple <a href> tags (unable to locate file:///RootName/Path/to/File.name).
That's why I have to try AND FIND another solution(BTW, headers('Location: ') doesn't work either :-( ).

Any more ideas? Please...

Thanks a lot in advance,
Sincerely,
Fred.
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[Anon]

try this, it will read the contents of a text file and print them out line by line with a break tag after each line

$fp=fopen("text.txt","r");
while(!feof($fp))
{
$line = fgets($fp,255);
$text .= $line."<br>";
}
fclose($fp);
echo $text;