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file handling - open file was created/last modified on Mon 15 Mar 2004 8:06 AM

opens a file and returns the content as a string

<?
  function file_open($filename) {
      if($fp = @fopen($filename, "r")) {
          $fp = @fopen($filename, "r");
          $contents = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
          fclose($fp);
          return $contents;
      } else {
          return false;
      }
  }

// use like $text = file_open('data/file.txt');

  ?>   

learn more about some of the PHP functions used in this snippet: else, fclose, file, filesize, fopen, fread, function, return

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