files

[phpprog]

Hi
can anyone tell me how to read entire contents of a file to a variable and echo it.
like
$var = readallthefilecontents
echo $var

thanks
IM

[surfer]

Have a look on the fgets function.
Like this
<?php
$fd = fopen ("the_file_name", "r");
while (!feof($fd)) {
$buffer = fgets($fd, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose ($fd);
?>

Hope it helps

[phpprog]

Thanks very much

[coditoergosum]

Another useful function would be file_get_contents.

This page will tell you everything you need to know about file operations: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php .

[Rohan_Hill]

An even better one would be readfile (), that one function reads the contents of the file and echos it 😃