How to get content of a file in php

[pnutUUM]

hello,

i just want to know how can i read content from a file to be used as the input to be saved in the database...
what i want to do is to read a text file containing student's matric number and their names. the user only have to browse the location of the file to register students. then the matric numbers and names will be added to the database....so,no need to register students one by one...can anybody help me?

[heckenschutze]

There are 2 main methods:

The C based way (example from php.net):
[code]<?php
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
?>[/code]

Or the easy, new PHP way:
[code]<?php
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$contents = file_get_contents($filename);
?>[/code]

is that what you were after?