Sample code for php to read files

This php code demonstrates in detail how to open a file, read a file and close a file. In php, you can open a file through fopen, get the file size through the filesize function, fread to read the file content, and fclose to close the file

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Reading a file using PHP



$filename = "/home/user/guest/ tmp.txt";
$file = fopen( $filename, "r" );
if( $file == false )
{
 echo ( "Error in opening file" );
 exit();
}
$ filesize = filesize( $filename );
$filetext = fread( $file, $filesize );

fclose( $file );

echo ( "File size : $filesize bytes" );
echo ( "" );
?>

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