Read & Return Data From Files Into PHP

By Angela Bradley, About.com Guide

If you have written data to a file from PHP, or you have a file on your server you need to read with PHP, there are quite a few ways you can do it. The four ways we will cover here are fread (), fgets (), file (), and file_get_contents(). The one you choose is based upon your needs, and how the data in the file you are accessing is formatted.

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• Reading File Data
• Using fread () in PHP
• Using file_get_contents () in PHP
• Using fgets () in PHP
• Using file () in PHP

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