Re: Loading a File into Variable - How??
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:14:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Loading a File into Variable - How?? | ||
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In 4.3 you would use file_get_contents()
In prior versions I would suggest:
$fp = fopen('filename','r');
$string = fread($fp, filesize('filename'));
fclose($fp);
The implode(file()) stuff is very memory-inefficient.
-Rasmus
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:28:57PM -0400, Monty wrote:
> > > Look 4 implode() in the function list
> >
> > Implode isn't really what I need, I just want to load an entire file into a
> > single string variable.
>
> Yes, it IS what you need. Plus, to work around your other problems
> mentioned in later posts...
>
> $string = implode('', file('filename') );
>
> --Dan
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