Include??

[dniezby]

Is it possible to echo the contents of an include?

I need to output a txt file to a variable and I did this.

$content=include("textfile.txt");
echo "variable=$content";

All that this file is outputing to the variable is:

"1"

What the ?????

This is going to a flash file so the variable is being called through loadVariables "GET" in the flash program. It seems like it would work if I can get the contents assigned to variable.

[Mordecai]

You're just setting the variable to TRUE, because it included the file correctly.

You're going to have to use fread().

[dniezby]

I tried that...It didn't work either.

[alanzhao]

try this,

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

[dniezby]

Actually, I finally got the fread to work. ???

I don't know why it's working all of the sudden but now it's working.

Maybe you could help me with this new problem.

Outputed text puts a \ between commas.

EG: you\'d

What is the syntax for correcting this?

[alanzhao]

$content = stripslashes($content);

[dniezby]

Where would I put it in here? This is the script I wrote to output the information to my Flash program.

It curently works..I just want to get rid of the slashes.

<?php
$filename="aboutbox.txt";
$fp=fopen($filename,"r");
$contents=fread($fp,4029);
fclose ($fp);
echo "&contents=$contents";  //output content to Flash Variable CONTENTS
?>

For Reference, here is what the scripts are doing:
This page is where a user goes to update the information in a
box on the second link.

http://www.usmr-rep.com/working/update.html

Here is the page that reads that file.
http://www.usmr-rep.com/working/infobox.html

[alanzhao]

<?php
$filename="aboutbox.txt";
$fp=fopen($filename,"r");
$contents=fread($fp,4029);
$contents = stripslashes($contents);
fclose ($fp);
echo "&contents=$contents";  //output content to Flash Variable CONTENTS
?>

[dniezby]

THANK YOU!!!

It worked!!!

Biggest help so far.