[RESOLVED] opening text file remotely

[kjonmyway]

Thanks in advance for your time and responses.

I need to remotely (not sure if this is the correct term) open and read a text file, then display that information in a web page. Not sure how to do this. I have tried this on a text file on the same server with no problem, but how do I access a file on a different server?

This is the code I had for the script that reads the text file on the same server.

<?php
$opFile = "books.txt";
$fp = fopen($opFile,"r") or die("Error Reading File");

$data = fread($fp, filesize($opFile));
fclose($fp);

$line = explode("\n", $data);
$i=count($line); 

for ($n=0 ; $n < $i-1 ; $n++ ) {
  $listings = explode("|", $line[$n]); 


echo "Book Title: " .$listings[0]."<br>";
echo "Author: " .$listings[1]."<br>";
echo "Date Published: " .$listings[2]."<br><br>";
 }

?>

So, as an example, how do I change this to read a text file at:

exampledomain.com/files/books.txt

Major newbie here, so sorry if this is confusing.

Thanks again!

[Mgccl]

change these part

$opFile = "books.txt"; 

to

$opFile = "http://exampledomain.com/files/books.txt"; 

$data = fread($fp, filesize($opFile)); 

to

$size = 10000;// here any number you like, as long as bigger than the text file's length
$data = fread($fp, $size); 

but it was said that file_get_contents() function does a better job on that...

[jmrouleau]

file_get_contents() is much easier as long as you have PHP5

[kjonmyway]

Thank you for all the help. Will try that.