Getting a files complete contents

[nca]

I cannot get the whole contents of a file! What is wrong with this statement...

$FILE = fopen("/usr/www/footer.txt","r");
$footer = fgets($FILE,1000);

When I try to output $footer it says nothing! Please help.

[TTT]

i have used this to read the html, think that it work's also with text files

$fcontents = file ($the_path);
$fcontents = join ('', file ($the_path));
$foo =$fcontents;

[nca]

THANK YOU! 🙂