[SOLVED] Quick Question about fopen() / fread()

[JSHINER]

$filename = "myFile.php";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
echo $contents;
fclose($handle);

 

the myFile.php simply echos a number. But when I echo the $contents it displays all the PHP code to create that number.

 

How can I get around this?

[R0bb0b]

Are you looking for include() or require()?

[kenrbnsn]

What do you want to do here? If you want to execute the code in myFile.php, you want to use include(), not fopen()/fread() which gives you the contents of the file.

 

Ken

[JSHINER]

I can't execute the code of myFile.php in the file it's trying to display in because of conflicting database info in each. I know I can get around it but it's for a quick simple file so I just wanted to grab the # off the myFile.php.

[Brian W]

what are you going to do with it? like, are you going to need to edit it or something?

Why not just use include('myFile.php') ?

You might want to look into this: http://us3.php.net/function.file-get-contents

Fread, to me, seems to be only for reading the contents of a file, not to actually execute it. It is also a Binary safe function if I remember right.

[Brian W]

Than why don't you take the lines that generate the number and just copy and paste them where you need em?

[JSHINER]

Because the lines that generate it in myFile.php are using a different database than lines in the file I'm displaying it in and I just wanted to hack around the switching of databases. I know, hack, but it's for a quick file I don't want to spend too much time on.

[JSHINER]

Figured it out - just put it as http://www.site.com/myFile.php and it executes it before it reads it.

[Brian W]

You seem to already be spending quite a bit of time  :-\

 

[JSHINER]

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