RE: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it

Thanks Ed! Yes, another member here told me to use fread(), which is what your link led to if you're not using the CVS version of PHP. (whatever that is) I got it working with this: <? $file = "../header.html"; $fp = fopen($file, "r"); $header = fread($fp, filesize($file)); fclose ($fp); echo $header; I'm a Perl guy so I was looking for an easier way. In Perl, all you have to do is open it, dump it to a variable and close it. I thought it would be that easy in PHP too. I guess Perl wins there, but PHP is much better overall so far. ;) Thanks again! Troy -----Original Message----- From: @ Edwin [mailto:copperwalls@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:29 PM To: Troy May Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it Hello, "Troy May" <tmay@pcsympathy.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Extreme newbie here (halfway through my first book :) ). I need to open a > file, read the whole file into a variable, manipulate it, and then echo it > to the screen. I'm doing it right from my book and it's not working. > Here's what I have now: > > <? $header = fopen("header.html","r"); > > echo $header; ?> > > It writes "Resource id #1" at the top of the page. What is that?! :) Check the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php You're echoing the result of fopen() which is an "int"--you have to make sure that you're using the function properly ;) > I have also tried using file(). That displays "Array" on the screen. What > am I doing wrong? I think it's because you're echoing the result of file() which is an array. You cannot just "echo $the_array;" Try print_r($the_array) and you'll see a different result--though I doubt it's the one you want to see :) Check the manual again: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php Anyway, I think you're looking for something like this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php Esp. the "User Contributed Notes". HTH, - E