Re: Problem with "<"

The lines are not missed, they are simply not visible when you echo the stuff to the browser because your browser thinks these are HTML tags. Try doing a "View Source" in your browser and I bet you will discover that they are actually there. -Rasmus On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Paul - Zenith Tech Inc wrote: > Hi, > > I have a text file, which is acting as a template for apache config. > I open the file, and read it in using this bit of code: > > $filename = DIR_TEMPLATES."/apache/subdom.txt"; > $fd = fopen ($filename, "r"); > $template = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename)); > fclose ($fd); > > However, the first line is missed off, along with any line beginning with > "<" > > For example, this line is missed out: > > <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx> > > Does anybody know the way round this?? > Or does anybody know why this is happening? > > Thanks, > Paul > > > >