Re: file_get_contents source??

From: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:56:50 +0000
Subject: Re: file_get_contents source??
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In article <20020419174813.63086.qmail@pb1.pair.com>, grag@libero.it (Giovanni Lenzi) wrote: > file_get_contents function is supposed to return the contents of a file in a > binary safe manner. I tried it on two different servers which has different > versions of APACHE+PHP but it still not works. > The server give me this response: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_get_contents() in > /usr/home/s/a/sauzer/public_html/sfidario/readstreams/1.0/warsupcoming.php > on line 17 From <http://php.net/file-get-contents>: "file_get_contents (PHP 4 CVS only)". That's why it's not in your version. Reading further, it says "Identical to readfile(), except that file_get_contents() returns the file in a string." So if don't need to do additional manipulation of the contents, there is one viable alternative. The user annotations suggest two additional alternatives. -- CC

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