using readfile() in a html table

[hpaustin]

<?php 
$one="<table width='100%' border='1' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='1'>";
$two="<tr>";
$three="<td> readfile('news.txt'); </td>";
$four="</tr>";
$five="</table>";
$format = "$one <BR> $two <BR> $three <BR> $four <BR> $five";
echo $format;
?>

this prints readfile('news.txt'); into an html table. how do i accually import news.txt inside a html table?
(i already tryed using include)

[laserlight]

[man]readfile/man outputs a file, it doesnt return a string.
You can use file_get_contents() instead, assuming you are running PHP 4.3.0 or better
(most updated would be to run PHP 4.3.6)

<?php 
$one = "<table width='100%' border='1' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='1'>";
$two = "<tr>";
$three = "<td> " . file_get_contents('news.txt') . " </td>";
$four = "</tr>";
$five = "</table>";
$format = "$one <BR> $two <BR> $three <BR> $four <BR> $five";
echo $format;
?>

[hpaustin]

thanks that works great =).

" . file_get_contents('news.txt') . "

why did you put it inside ". ." ?

[laserlight]

because functions are not variables.
they do not get parsed that way.