[RESOLVED] Loading a file into a variable

[jclarke]

I was just wondereing if there is a way to load an external text file into a variable.

I've heard that u can use openfile() to directly echo a file's content onto the page. But that's no good of I want to play around with the file in php.

I've also head that there's a way to read a file using fopen() eg.

//second parameter can content: a=append, r=read, w=write etc.
$myFile = fopen("aFile.txt","r");
//do something over here to load it into a variable

For when I just echo "$myFile" it returns "Resource id #2".

Can anyone help??

[jclarke]

don't worry I found an answer, using the file_get_contents eg.

$file = file_get_contents("aFile.txt");