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>    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P
>file&nbsp;--&nbsp;Reads entire file into an array</DIV
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>array <B
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>file</B
> ( string filename [, int use_include_path])<BR
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> 
     Identical to <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>readfile()</B
></A
>, except that
     <B
CLASS="function"
>file()</B
> returns the file in an array. Each
     element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the
     newline still attached.  Upon failure, <B
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     returns <TT
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>Note: </B
>
      Each line in the resulting array will include the line ending, so you
      still need to use <A
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> if you do not want the line
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>Note: </B
>If you are having problems
with <TT
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>PHP</TT
> not recognizing the line endings when
reading files either on or created by a Macintosh computer, you
might want to enable the <A
HREF="ref.filesystem.html#ini.auto-detect-line-endings"
>auto_detect_line_endings</A
> run-time configuration option.</P
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>&#13;     You can use the optional <TT
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><I
>use_include_path</I
></TT
> parameter 
     and set it to "1", if you want to search for the file in the <A
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>include_path</A
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// Get a file into an array.  In this example we'll go through HTTP to get 
// the HTML source of a URL.
$lines = file ('http://www.example.com/');

// Loop through our array, show html source as html source; and line numbers too.
foreach ($lines as $line_num =&#62; $line) {
    echo "Line #&#60;b&#62;{$line_num}&#60;/b&#62; : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "&#60;br&#62;\n";
}

// Another example, let's get a web page into a string.  See also file_get_contents().
$html = implode ('', file ('http://www.example.com/'));
?&#62;</PRE
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      As of PHP 4.3.0 you can use <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>file_get_contents()</B
></A
> to
      return the contents of a file as a string. 
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>&#13;      In PHP 4.3.0 <B
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>file()</B
> became binary safe.
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>Tip: </B
>You can use a URL as a
filename with this function if the <A
HREF="ref.filesystem.html#ini.allow-url-fopen"
>fopen wrappers</A
> have been enabled.
See <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>fopen()</B
></A
> for more details on how to specify
the filename and <A
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>Appendix I</A
> for a list of supported
URL protocols.</P
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     See also <A
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><B
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>readfile()</B
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     <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
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>fsockopen()</B
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><B
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>popen()</B
></A
>, <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>file_get_contents()</B
></A
>,
     and <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>include()</B
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