I could be wrong, but I'd guess that filesize fails for remote files.

If all you're doing is spitting out the text, why not use readfile()?

-philip

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Guru Geek wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a recent convert from CGI/Perl and so am still getting my feet wet
> in PHP.
>
> Here's my code:
> $filename = "http://www.myserver.com/include/sometext.txt";;
> $handle = fopen ($filename, "rb");
> $contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
> fclose ($handle);
> echo $contents;
> exit;
>
> The problem is nothing shows up, it's a blank browser window.  I'm sure
> this is a stupid questions and very easily fixed.
>
> Also, if the text file I'm trying to read is multi lined, shouldnt I be
> placing the contents into an array?  or is that old cgi habits coming
> through?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
>
>
>
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