Re: fopen

Please take another look at the manual page on fopen(). You're not using it correctly. fopen() does not return the contents of the file, it retuns a resource handel. You pass the handel as a parameter to fread() in order to read the file. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php If all you want is to get the contents of a file into a variable then you can use something like this: $contents = implode('', file("myfile.txt")); - Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Cc: "John Taylor-Johnston" <jtjohnston@courrier.usherb.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: [PHP] fopen > #http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php > > $contents = fopen ("/home/pathto/file.txt", "r"); > > if ($contents){echo"<textarea>$contents</textarea>";} > else{echo "no contents there";} > > Questions: > What is the use of "@fopen"? > Does anyone see a better way? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >