Text file into a variable.

D_Dave

Hi there.

How can i read a text file and read the contents, putting these contents into a variable rather than displaying them onscreen?

<?php
$webaddress = "http://";
$fp = fopen ( "textfile.txt", "r");
fread( $fp, $myfile);
fclose( $fp );

include ($myfile);
?>

The text file will hold and IP address.

That is just a guess, but i am going to try it now anyway...

Thanks for any help...

Dave

mooseday

Or is you are looking to load the page from the IP address in the file you could try:


<?php

$fp = fopen ( "textfile.txt", "r");

$webaddress =  fget( $fp, 4096);

fclose( $fp );

header("Location: hxxp://" . $webaddress);

?>

hxxp = http ( couldn't work out how to stop it being coverted to a link on the forum display )

cyclops

try this :

<?php
$remotefile = fopen("http://www.example.com/textfile.txt", "r");
while ($tempvariable = fgets($remotefile,256))
{
$endvariable .= $tempvariable;
}
fclose ($remotefile);
echo $endvariable;
?>

rIkLuNd

$content = implode('',@file('textfile.txt'));

D_Dave

Thank you all very much...

One last problem though: the IP address i get from the file is then used to 'include' a file from the apache webserver running on my PC.

Here is my code:

<?php
$webaddress = "http://";
$online = "/online.txt";

$content = implode('',@file('textfile.txt'));
//text file is on my webserver...
//implode as there is only 1 word, no spaces

echo ("$content<br>");
//show the IP on the page

$isonline = implode('',@file($webaddress.$content.$online));
//$webaddress.$content.$online will
//look like : [url]http://**.**.**.**/online.txt[/url]
//this file is on my home PC

echo ("$isonline<br>");
//show file contents ("online")

//print the right message
if ($isonline == "online") {
	echo ("Server is online");
}else{
	echo ("Server is offline");
}
?>

All works well when the the server (my PC) is running, producing:

...*
online
Server is online

However, when i close the webserver on my PC i get this:

...*

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in /home/www/webideyt/testing/phpthing.php on line 9

Server is offline

I still get this error when i remove;

echo ("$isonline<br>");
//show file contents ("online")

How can i stop the error message, and just leave the string empty, or containing the error page?

Note: ...* represents the IP address.

Thank you very much.

Dave

rIkLuNd

To remove the error message, then do like this:

$content = @implode('',@file('textfile.txt'));

This will hide the error message, but it's still there!

D_Dave

Thanks very much --- BUT now it takes forever to load (if there is an error) :mad: is there a quicker way? 😕

Thanks