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Alternative To File()? - file stored in arrays

snlildude87
Hey guys. I was wondering if there is an alternative to using file(). I'm trying to read a file and store it into an array without using the file function. Before, I was doing something like this:

CODE
<?php
 $file = file("http://yahoo.com");
?>


Simple. It gets the contents of index.html at yahoo.com and store each line in an array. Well, I was wondering if there is another code that could do that without using the file function.

Thanks for helping!

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SystemWisdom
You should check out:

readfile()
fopen()
file_get_contents()

Maybe those help?

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snlildude87
I know that using file(), it returns an array, but what do those three functions return? How do I use them so that they can act like the file() function?

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MarCrush
Why do you want to use a different function instead of file() . If it works just fine, why not use it.

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snlildude87
QUOTE(MarCrush @ Sep 30 2005, 11:10 PM)
Why do you want to use a different function instead of file() . If it works just fine, why not use it.
*

Because the server where I'm at right now doesn't allow that. Anyway, I found an alternative:

CODE
$filestring = file_get_contents($filename);
   $filearray = explode("\n", $filestring);


Thanks anyway. I'm closing this thread now since my question is solved.

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