note 42964 added to function.fgets

As a beginner I would have liked to see "how to read a file into a string for use later and not only how to directly echo the fgets() result. This is what I derived: <?php @ $pointer = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/foo.txt", "r"); // the @ suppresses errors so you have to test the pointer for existence if ($pointer) { while (!feof($pointer)) { $preTEXT = fgets($pointer, 999); $TEXT = $TEXT . $preTEXT; } fclose($pointer); } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42964 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42964&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42964&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php