Reading from a file and Outputting in a String

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<html>
<head><title>Read a file into a String</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Reading file into a string</h1>
<?
/*open the file and read the content into a string*/
$file='yourfile.txt';

//we put the content inside a string using file_get_contents (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5):
if($mystring=file_get_contents($file))
echo '<p>Success reading the content of the file:</p>';
echo '<i>'.$mystring.'</i>';
?>

</body>
</html>

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From the page http://usphp.com...file-get-contents.php you will find the details about the file_get_contents function.

Note: this function is available since Php 4.3.0.

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Reading from a file and Outputting in a String

Reading from a file and Outputting in a String

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