RE: [PHP-DEV] Additional argument in funtion file($a, $b)

I?ve also thought about this and think there should be funciton wich returns the contents of a file as a string. Especially since implode("", file($filename)) is or is at least said to be much slower than; $content = fread(fopen($filename, 'r'), filesize($filename)); -Marten. -----Original Message----- From: Urs Gehrig [mailto:urs@circle.ch] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:31 PM To: php-dev@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DEV] Additional argument in funtion file($a, $b) dear all having seen lots of applications using the following expression: $cont = join ("", file ("test.xml")); ... i would like to propose an addtional attribute in the argument list of the function file(). lets consider that: $cont = file ("test.xml", FALSE) or $cont = file ("test.xml") would be equivalent to: $cont = file ("test.xml") and on the other hand: $cont = file ("test.xml", TRUE) would be equivalent to: $cont = join ("", file ("test.xml")) the second argument would therefore represent an attribute, which let one specify not only to return an ARRAY (attribute=FALSE) but also a STRING (attribute=TRUE). adding this argument would not affect older or current implementations or usage of the function file(). what do you think about this? best regards, urs -- Urs Gehrig <urs@circle.ch> http://www.circle.ch -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net