Read & Return Data From Files Into PHP

By Angela Bradley, About.com Guide

You can use fread () when you want to read the file data and return it to a string. You can specify how many bytes to read, but 8192 is the maximum. If you choose to use this method, you must be sure to open the file first.

 <?php 
 $YourFile = "YourFile.txt"; 
 $handle = fopen($YourFile, 'r'); 
 $Data = fread($handle, 512); 
 fclose($handle); 
 print $Data; 
 ?> 

This code opens the file YourFile.txt from your server and puts it's entire contents into the variable $Data as a string. We then print $Data, so the script is basically outputting the file contents onto a page.

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