reading from a text file

[newbie5050]

hi guys, i have tried many different ways to do this and havent been getting anywhere, so any help will be much appreciated,

i am simply reading text from a .txt file using the following code

 

$search= $_POST["search"];

$file= $search . ".txt";

if(file_exists($file)){

    $handle = fopen($search . ".txt", 'r');

 

    $data = fread($handle, $file) or error("The file you requested is empty"); 

}

else{

error ("The file you requested does not exist");

}

 

and then just printing $data for the results, but the output doesnt present all of the information in the .txt, usualy just printing the first half.

thanks in advance for any help!!

[Fadion]

fread() takes the size to read as the second argument. U can either specify a hard coded filesize (ex. 4096) or preferably get the filesize of the actual file:

 

fread($hande, filesize($file));

[Barand]

try replacing

     $handle = fopen($search . ".txt", 'r');

     $data = fread($handle, $file) or error("The file you requested is empty");  

 

with

 

$data = file_get_contents($file);