note 29549 added to function.readfile

From: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:58:53 +0000
Subject: note 29549 added to function.readfile
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In response to the above where someone commented as to why you get a strange number at the end if you type: echo readfile($filename) The reason you get a weird number is that this is the return value of the function. From the definition the function will automatically output the contents of the file (echo is implied). $bytes = readfile($filename) will output the file and store the number of bytes outputted in $bytes. Hope this saves confusion for some folks. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+29549 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+29549 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+29549

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