Question

I’d like to know how to input a .html file to a browser, which then takes the contents of said .html file and converts it into one big string so that I can pass it into a JavaScript function to parse it. As I understand it, HTML5 implemented a file API but I’m not entirely sure if it’s capable of doing what I want, or how to really use it for all that matter.

Answer 1

You can use the following :

$filename = "yourhtmlfile.html";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
// Retrieve the content of HTML file, and stocks it into $contents var
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);