php-doc-en/reference/filesystem/functions/file.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.file">
<refnamediv>
<refname>file</refname>
<refpurpose>Reads entire file into an array</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>array</type><methodname>file</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>filename</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>flags</parameter><initializer>0</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>resource</type><parameter>context</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Reads an entire file into an array.
</para>
<note>
<para>
You can use <function>file_get_contents</function> to return the contents
of a file as a string.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>filename</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Path to the file.
</para>
&tip.fopen-wrapper;
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>flags</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The optional parameter <parameter>flags</parameter> can be one, or
more, of the following constants:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<constant>FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</constant>
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Search for the file in the <link
linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link>.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<constant>FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES</constant>
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Do not add newline at the end of each array element
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<constant>FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES</constant>
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Skip empty lines
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!-- FIXME PHP_6
<varlistentry>
<term>
<constant>FILE_TEXT</constant>
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
The content is returned in UTF-8 encoding. You can specify a different
encoding by creating a custom context. This flag cannot be used with
<constant>FILE_BINARY</constant>.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<constant>FILE_BINARY</constant>
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
The content is read as binary data. This is the default setting
and cannot be used with <constant>FILE_TEXT</constant>.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>context</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
A context resource created with the
<function>stream_context_create</function> function.
</para>
<para>
&note.context-support;
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
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,
<function>file</function> returns &false;.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Each line in the resulting array will include the line ending, unless
<constant>FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES</constant> is used, so you still need to
use <function>rtrim</function> if you do not want the line ending
present.
</para>
</note>
&note.line-endings;
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
<para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<!-- FIXME PHP_6
<row>
<entry>6.0.0</entry>
<entry>
Added support for the <constant>FILE_TEXT</constant> and
<constant>FILE_BINARY</constant> flags.
<note>
<para>
For <literal>forward compatibility</literal>, these constants are
available as of PHP 5.2.7
</para>
</note>
</entry>
</row>
-->
<row>
<entry>5.0.0</entry>
<entry>
The <parameter>context</parameter> parameter was added
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>5.0.0</entry>
<entry>
Prior to PHP 5.0.0 the <parameter>flags</parameter> parameter only
covered <link linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link> and was
enabled with 1
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>4.3.0</entry>
<entry>
<function>file</function> became binary safe
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>file</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
// Get a file into an array. In this example we'll go through HTTP to get
// the HTML source of a URL.
$lines = file('http://www.example.com/');
// Loop through our array, show HTML source as HTML source; and line numbers too.
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\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);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="notes">
&reftitle.notes;
&warn.ssl-non-standard;
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>readfile</function></member>
<member><function>fopen</function></member>
<member><function>fsockopen</function></member>
<member><function>popen</function></member>
<member><function>file_get_contents</function></member>
<member><link linkend="function.include"><literal>include</literal></link></member>
<member><function>stream_context_create</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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