what is this command?

[Anon]

I grabbed some code from earlt and agen-source.com. He was kind enough to make a sitemapper that will walk a site and built a single flat file for indexing all your links.

As I was reading through the code to see what he did I came across the command '@file'. I dont recognize it. What does it do? I guessed that this is the command that actually parses a page. This command is referenced in the code like this:
'$contents = @file($url);'

This code can be found at http://agent-source.com/sitemapper/. I havent had much luck using it yet and I am not sure why. If anyone here gets a chance to look at it can they tell me if it will work on dynamic pages?

Any help or guidance is appreciated.

[Anon]

That is the file command being silenced on errors

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Info on File()

the @ prevents the PHP errors from showing if file() has problems. the @ can be used to do this to any command

[cordex]

Let me be the first to introduce you to the phrase "RTFM", or "Read The Fuc..." er ... that is to say ... "Read The Field Manual".

Meaning, go here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
and start reading.

[cordex]

damn, I was the second. oh well. good luck, Sean.