Re: load rtf file

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:23 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@usherbrooke.ca> wrote: > I have a big giant RTF file. I could convert it to plain text. BUT can PHP > do it for me? Not directly, although there might be libraries out there to do it, but none that I'm aware of off-hand. Perl, of course does this with RTF::TEXT::Converter < http://search.cpan.org/~sargie/RTF-Parser-1.09/lib/RTF/TEXT/Converter.pm >. To use this, you'd have to hand off the processing to a perl script using shell_exec, proc_open, etc. > I want to read the text file into a string. This does the job well, right? > http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php > > This is it? Not more complicated? > > |<?php > $homepage = > file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/text.txt'); > echo $homepage; > ?> | Not really complicated, *however* there is a php.ini option that must be set for this to work: < http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen > > What about this? > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php > > ||<?php > |$lines = file('http://www.example.com/');| > |echo $lines; > ?>| > > Is there any big difference? *HUGE* difference: * file_get_contents returns a single *string* with the entire content. * file returns an *array* of lines. Change your above snippets to use 'var_dump($lines);' instead of 'echo $lines;' to see the structural difference.