[Resolved] Not sure why this is not working...

jon86

Hi.

I have an HTML page that is governed by rules inside a CSS stylesheet. I want to make a bit of PHP code read some text inside a file called 'main.content' and then display it. I have renamed the HTML page with a .php extension ( not sure if this is necessary ) and the page just displays "Resource id #2".

What am I doing wrong? 😕

Snippit of code:

<div id="content">
	<?php
		// Open and read the main.content and then display it

	$maincontname = "main.content" ;
	$openmaincont = fopen($maincontname, "rb") ;
	$maincont = fread($openmaincont, filesize($maincontname)) ;
	fclose($openmaincont) ;
?>
</div>

Adding "echo $maincont;" doesn't help.

Many thanks.
Jon

jon86

Nevermind... got it sorted by editing the proper page and adding an echo. :rolleyes:

Thanks.
Jon

yelvington

The only way to get the error message you described would be to attempt to echo the value of the file handle $openmaincont.

The code you posted should echo

... and nothing more. None of the PHP that you posted actually outputs anything.

I don't see anything (other than that) broken in your code, but if you use fopen, you should check to see that it succeeded before passing the handle to fread. If the file exists in the current directory and is readable, $maincont should contain its contents, which you would have to echo in order to output.

Here is a much simpler version:

jon86

I don't want to use readfile() coz it does not allow manipulation like the method I used. I am going to do some if/else/then type manipulation to it when I get round to it. 🙂

This is what I have right now...

<div id="content">
	<?php
		// Open and read the main.content and then display it

	$maincontname = "main.content" ;
	if (!($openmaincont=fopen($maincontname, "rb"))) // If you can't open the file, stop and output error message
		exit("Unable to display content.");
	while (!feof($openmaincont))
	{ 
		$maincont = fread($openmaincont, filesize($maincontname)) ; 
		echo $maincont ;
	}
	fclose($openmaincont);
?>
</div>

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment.

Thanks.
Jon