how to display a file??? (BIG n00b)

AKa47

how can i display a text or other file with php??
i tried
<?php
$filename = test.txt;

echo $filename;
?>

but i doesnt work...

Strings

You can't directly assign a text file to a variable and then echo it. Here's a simple solution to your problem:

<?php

$file=file_get_contents(test.txt);

print "$file";

?>

That's just one of the many filesystem functions you can use to display a file.

AnoniM

Originally posted by Strings
You can't directly assign a text file to a variable and then echo it. Here's a simple solution to your problem:
<?php

$file=file_get_contents(test.txt);

print "$file";

?>
That's just one of the many filesystem functions you can use to display a file. [/B]

Your code is bad 🙂. You don't have defined test.txt const.

focusbeam

<?php

$file=file_get_contents(test.txt);

print "$file";

?>

you forgot the quotes around test.txt

$file=file_get_contents("test.txt");

Mordecai

Well, you've got several choices. File_get_contents() is a good one to quickly get all content out of a file. include/include_once and require/require_once may be more suited to what you want, as it parses HTML as well. If you need an array where each element is a different line (separated by carriage returns and new line characters), you want file(). If you want the most control over what you read, use fopen(), fread(), fclose(), and various other f*() functions.

cyanblue

Howdy... 🙂

I have tried several ways to get the content of the external file into a PHP variable... (fgets(), fread(), file_get_contents())

The problem that I am having is that the script works fine if I run the script with the plain text file like this...

$filename = 'news.txt';
$str = file_get_contents($filename);
echo("str = " . $str . "<BR>");

I get the all the strings just fine...

BUT that script gets rid of all the tags if I try to load the XML file... I do not want to parse the XML file... I just want to store the content of the XML file into a variable...

For example, this is a content of a XML file...

<news>
<submission1525December212004>
<title>Test4</title>
<date>15:26 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004</date>
<content>Test4</content>
</submission1525December212004>
</news>

and this displays this output...

str = 15:26 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Test4

As you can see, all the XML tags are stripped automatically...

Is this how it is supposed to be??? Is there any way I can read the whole XML content and store it into the variable??? 🙁

Thank you very much... 🙂

devinemke

Originally posted by cyanblue
...As you can see, all the XML tags are stripped automatically...

no, all the XML tags are still there you just aren't seeing them in your browser. "view source" and then look at the output.

cyanblue

Thanks, devinemke... 🙂

Yeah... I was merely stupid... 😃