<?php echo $text; ?> query

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my dynamic template to print or echo specific text from a $text variable. So if you go to template.php?text=1.txt, it should display the text that is contained within the 1.txt file, and template.php?text=2.txt will display the text contained within the 2.txt file and so on.

I have managed to do this with images php print, using: img src=<?php echo $pic; ?> and have tried to apply that to the text output I want, using: <?php echo $text; ?> and then calling the text file with template.php?text=1.txt but all I get is the words: 1.txt displayed in the page.

Obviously the echo (and the same with print) functions are displaying literally what I put in the address bar - there must be something missing - any ideas?

TIA

Jonathen

[linus]

The variable $text that you passed to the script is just a string. PHP will deal with it the same way whether it is "phpbuilderrules", "Jonathenrocks", or "file.txt". It's all the same. What you need to do is access the actual file with the name:

$file_pointer = fopen($_GET['file'], 'r');

Read about the filesystem functions in the PHP manual. 🙂

[Anon]

Ok, so I looked at what you posted and looked it up in the PHP manual, and get the general gist for what it does. However, I get the following error:

Warning: fopen("","r") - Inappropriate ioctl for device

I know I am probably being really thick, but I am still learning PHP, so please bear with me :o)

Thanks for your help.

[linus]

I'm not sure what ioctl means, but if this is what you wrote:

fopen("","r")

There's no filename specified, so... I don't think that will work. 🙂

Btw, if you just want to read a file and output the contents, nothing else, the function fread() may be a quicker way. fopen() is useful though, I suggest learning it, but you may want to spend more time on the PHP basics first. 🙂