file Reads entire file into an array &reftitle.description; arrayfile stringfilename intflags0 resourcecontext Reads an entire file into an array. You can use file_get_contents to return the contents of a file as a string. &reftitle.parameters; filename Path to the file. &tip.fopen-wrapper; flags The optional parameter flags can be one, or more, of the following constants: FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH Search for the file in the include_path. FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES Do not add newline at the end of each array element FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES Skip empty lines context A context resource created with the stream_context_create function. ¬e.context-support; &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the newline still attached. Upon failure, file returns &false;. Each line in the resulting array will include the line ending, unless FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES is used, so you still need to use rtrim if you do not want the line ending present. ¬e.line-endings; &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 5.0.0 The context parameter was added 5.0.0 Prior to PHP 5.0.0 the flags parameter only covered include_path and was enabled with 1 4.3.0 file became binary safe &reftitle.examples; $line) { echo "Line #{$line_num} : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "
\n"; } // Another example, let's get a web page into a string. See also file_get_contents(). $html = implode('', file('http://www.example.com/')); // Using the optional flags parameter since PHP 5 $trimmed = file('somefile.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES); ?> ]]> &reftitle.notes; &warn.ssl-non-standard; &reftitle.seealso; readfile fopen fsockopen popen file_get_contents include stream_context_create