fopen() function dose not read all the file

[fishown]

im using files as data-base
so its realy importent but the fopen() dose not read all the file content ....
why?

this is the code:

<?php	

function FileOpen($dir)
{
	$fop =  fopen($dir, 'r');
	$content = fread($fop, '999');
	 fclose($fop);

return $content; 

}

	$content = FileOpen("adminpanel/db/guides.php");

	for($i=0;$i<50;$i++){

				echo $content[$i];	
	}

?>

[lazzerous]

You're limiting to 999 bytes

Try something more like this:

while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}

[devinemke]

because you have told fread to only get the first 999 bytes? if you are using PHP 4.3.0 or higher you should check out [man]file_get_contents[/man]