fopen

[tuf-web_co_uk]

hey i looked at the manual for fopen function so i could look and edit the contents of a file
but when i try using this code to open the page and show it, for editing i only get this message

Resource id #2

<?php
$handle = fopen ("header.php", "rb");
echo "<textarea>$handle</textarea>";
?>

i cant quite find where to solve this on the manual so i thought i'd check with people who are smart 🙂

thanks inadvance Jon 😉

[tuf-web_co_uk]

never mind i got it 🙂

[harryman100]

if you are tring to put a php file in why not use an include()?

I generally use file() to get the contents of a file, then if I want to write to it, I do that seperately by fopen($filename, "w+") ing it then using fwrite() to put contents in. Note, when I do this I use file() to read the contents first, then add what I want this, before fopen()ing it, and re-writing the entire file. (w+ option truncates the file to zero length).

This is the typical code I use to do such a thing:

$filecontents = file('myfile');
$filestuff = $filecontents[0]; //all my stuff is stored on the first line of files
$stufftoadd = "add this text";
$writeline = $filestuff.$stufftoadd;
$fo = fopen("myfile", "w+");
fwrite($fo, $writeline);
fclose($fo);

I expect there is an better way to do this, but this is the way I do it. The code could probably be compacted a little as well. Obviously you can do different things to the $writeline before you write it, you don't have to just add stuff to the end of it.

HTH
Harry