Read & Return Data From Files Into PHP

File_get_contents () is similar to fread () in that it returns the entire contents of the file to a single string, however it can be done in a single line and performs better then fread ().

<?php
$file = file_get_contents ('YourFile.txt');
Echo $file;
?>

This little bit of code retrieves the data from YourFile.text and then echos it onto the page.