converting file content into string variable

hi, i need to read an xmlfile into a variable.
how would this be done most efficiently?

(the length of a line in the xml could be up to 400 characters.

You could:

Parse the XML as you read the file (I'm positive there's PHP tutorials on how to do this)

You could use [man]fread[/man] to read the contents of the file into a string.

Or you could use [man]fgets[/man] to read line by line.

There's a lot of options available. Depends on what your goal is...

hmm... are you reading it as XML (which would go back to the problem of getting a parser that you like), or as a textfile?

As a textfile, there are numerous functions, such as [man]file_get_contents/man, [man]file/man, and the usual fopen() + fread() + fclose().

yepp. its still the same problem.

but i found a parser class now. (but im still open to your suggestions. 🙂 )

it just needs the xml file in a variable.

thanks so far, ill look into it.