Question

Here is my situation.Supposing I have a PHP file named as:

myfunctions.php

Is it possible to read the contents of that PHP file (myfunctions.php) in another script using available PHP functions?

I’m using the following functions without success in reading this PHP file:

file_get_contents()
file()

It simply returned blank. One of the possible successful method was to read this PHP file as text file but I do not know how to do this..If someone has some other methods, please share. Ideally I want the output to be an array so the data I would like to obtain will be easily manipulated for use.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If I were you, I will change the extension on the “myfunctions.php” to “myfunctions.txt” and use the theses functions

file_get_contents()
file()

But I don’t know if you are allow to change the name of the document.

file() - Reads entire file into an array
fgets() - Gets line from file pointer
fread() - Binary-safe file read
readfile() - Outputs a file
file_put_contents() - Write a string to a file
stream_get_contents() - Reads remainder of a stream into a string
stream_context_create() - Creates a stream context