RE: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Thanks Ed! Yes, another member here told me to use fread(), which is what your link led to if you're not using the CVS version of PHP. (whatever that is) I got it working with this: ? $file = ../header.html; $fp = fopen($file, r); $header = fread($fp, filesize($file)); fclose ($fp); echo $header; I'm a Perl guy so I was looking for an easier way. In Perl, all you have to do is open it, dump it to a variable and close it. I thought it would be that easy in PHP too. I guess Perl wins there, but PHP is much better overall so far. ;) Thanks again! Troy -Original Message- From: @ Edwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:29 PM To: Troy May Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it Hello, Troy May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Extreme newbie here (halfway through my first book :) ). I need to open a file, read the whole file into a variable, manipulate it, and then echo it to the screen. I'm doing it right from my book and it's not working. Here's what I have now: ? $header = fopen(header.html,r); echo $header; ? It writes Resource id #1 at the top of the page. What is that?! :) Check the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php You're echoing the result of fopen() which is an int--you have to make sure that you're using the function properly ;) I have also tried using file(). That displays Array on the screen. What am I doing wrong? I think it's because you're echoing the result of file() which is an array. You cannot just echo $the_array; Try print_r($the_array) and you'll see a different result--though I doubt it's the one you want to see :) Check the manual again: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php Anyway, I think you're looking for something like this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php Esp. the User Contributed Notes. HTH, - E -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Try this:
$content = implode('', file('../header.html'));
Or if you're running php 4.3.0 or greater:
$content = file_get_contents('../header.html');
Can't get much easier than that :)
-Mark
PS: That was in the user contributed notes Ed mentioned :)
- Original message -
From: Troy May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: @ Edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:45:50 -0800
Subject: RE: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Thanks Ed! Yes, another member here told me to use fread(), which is
what
your link led to if you're not using the CVS version of PHP. (whatever
that
is)
I got it working with this:
?
$file = ../header.html;
$fp = fopen($file, r);
$header = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose ($fp);
echo $header;
I'm a Perl guy so I was looking for an easier way. In Perl, all you have
to
do is open it, dump it to a variable and close it. I thought it would be
that easy in PHP too. I guess Perl wins there, but PHP is much better
overall so far. ;)
Thanks again!
Troy
-Original Message-
From: @ Edwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:29 PM
To: Troy May
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Hello,
Troy May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Extreme newbie here (halfway through my first book :) ). I need to open a
file, read the whole file into a variable, manipulate it, and then echo it
to the screen. I'm doing it right from my book and it's not working.
Here's what I have now:
? $header = fopen(header.html,r);
echo $header; ?
It writes Resource id #1 at the top of the page. What is that?! :)
Check the manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
You're echoing the result of fopen() which is an int--you have to make
sure that you're using the function properly ;)
I have also tried using file(). That displays Array on the screen.
What
am I doing wrong?
I think it's because you're echoing the result of file() which is an
array.
You cannot just echo $the_array; Try print_r($the_array) and you'll see
a
different result--though I doubt it's the one you want to see :)
Check the manual again:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
Anyway, I think you're looking for something like this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
Esp. the User Contributed Notes.
HTH,
- E
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Re: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Hello, Troy May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Extreme newbie here (halfway through my first book :) ). I need to open a file, read the whole file into a variable, manipulate it, and then echo it to the screen. I'm doing it right from my book and it's not working. Here's what I have now: ? $header = fopen(header.html,r); echo $header; ? It writes Resource id #1 at the top of the page. What is that?! :) Check the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php You're echoing the result of fopen() which is an int--you have to make sure that you're using the function properly ;) I have also tried using file(). That displays Array on the screen. What am I doing wrong? I think it's because you're echoing the result of file() which is an array. You cannot just echo $the_array; Try print_r($the_array) and you'll see a different result--though I doubt it's the one you want to see :) Check the manual again: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php Anyway, I think you're looking for something like this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php Esp. the User Contributed Notes. HTH, - E -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opening a file to manipulate it
Hi, on 17/11/02 1:45 PM, Troy May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ? $header = fopen(header.html,r); echo $header; ? It writes Resource id #1 at the top of the page. What is that?! :) You're missing some code -- instead, try this example from the fread() page in the manual: ?php // get contents of a file into a string $filename = header.html; $fd = fopen ($filename, r); $contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename)); fclose ($fd); ? Cheers, Justin French http://Indent.com.au Web Developent Graphic Design -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
