I?ve also thought about this and think there should be funciton wich returns
the contents of a file as a string. Especially since implode("",
file($filename)) is or is at least said to be much slower than;
$content = fread(fopen($filename, 'r'), filesize($filename));
-Marten.
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From: Urs Gehrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Additional argument in funtion file($a, $b)
dear all
having seen lots of applications using the following expression:
$cont = join ("", file ("test.xml"));
... i would like to propose an addtional attribute in the argument
list of the function file().
lets consider that:
$cont = file ("test.xml", FALSE) or $cont = file ("test.xml")
would be equivalent to:
$cont = file ("test.xml")
and on the other hand:
$cont = file ("test.xml", TRUE)
would be equivalent to:
$cont = join ("", file ("test.xml"))
the second argument would therefore represent an attribute, which
let one specify not only to return an ARRAY (attribute=FALSE) but
also a STRING (attribute=TRUE). adding this argument would not affect
older or current implementations or usage of the function file().
what do you think about this?
best regards, urs
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http://www.circle.ch
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