Passing Variables in a URL!?

[jkrystof]

i have a txt file of names [joe,jim,bob, ....] and i'm currently opening this file in my script then attempting to pass the names at the end of my url like below.

//myurl.com/......v1&n=joe,jim,bob

if i have

$filename = "/usr/local/names.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

how can i place the $contents variable within the url so the names are added to the end like i have in the url above?

thanks in advance

[laserlight]

You might append to the URL like this:

$url .= '&n=' . urlencode($contents);

Incidentally, use [man]file_get_contents/man instead of fopen() + fread() + fclose().