Question

$fp = fopen( $myFile, "r" );

//if echo $fp => I GOT NULL 

fclose($fp);

But if I do file_get_contents($myFile); I got the string data of that file.

My file ( fedora os )

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache appli 104  2 nov.  12:54 12_62_xxx.log

Answer 1

$fp is a handle, it’s not some real data from the file. You can use this handle in other funcitons, such as fread or fclose.
file_get_contents internally opens the file, reads it, closes the file and returns the string. That’s why when you print the result of the last one you get the file’s contents.

Try echo fgets($fp) and see what you get.