Comments on: How to read a file into a string using PHP http://www.leggetter.co.uk/2009/02/28/how-to-read-a-file-into-a-string-using-php.html Real-Time Web, Real-Time Data and Social Media Software and Technology Evangelist and Consultant Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Andrea Giammarchi http://www.leggetter.co.uk/2009/02/28/how-to-read-a-file-into-a-string-using-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-2544 Andrea Giammarchi Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:36:34 +0000 http://www.leggetter.co.uk/?p=163#comment-2544 <a href="http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php" rel="nofollow">file_get_contents</a>, which is binary content safe ( "rb" as fopen flag otherwise ) is the "evolution" and <pre name="code" class="php"> if(!function_exists('file_get_contents')) { function file_get_contents($s) { $r=fread($f=fopen($s,'rb'),filesize($s)); fclose($f); return $r; } } </pre> the natural fallback for 5 years older PHP installations ;-) See you on Monday mate, so far we are apparently only two Web 2.0 developers in the list! Regards file_get_contents, which is binary content safe ( “rb” as fopen flag otherwise ) is the “evolution” and

if(!function_exists('file_get_contents'))
{
    function file_get_contents($s)
    {
        $r=fread($f=fopen($s,'rb'),filesize($s));
        fclose($f);
        return $r;
    }
}

the natural fallback for 5 years older PHP installations ;-)

See you on Monday mate, so far we are apparently only two Web 2.0 developers in the list! Regards

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