Alternative To File()? file stored in arrays

[snlildude87 0]

Hey guys. I was wondering if there is an alternative to using file(). I'm trying to read a file and store it into an array without using the file function. Before, I was doing something like this:

<?php  $file = file("http://yahoo.com");?>

Simple. It gets the contents of index.html at yahoo.com and store each line in an array. Well, I was wondering if there is another code that could do that without using the file function.

Thanks for helping!

[SystemWisdom 0]

You should check out:

readfile()
fopen()
file_get_contents()

Maybe those help?

[snlildude87 0]

I know that using file(), it returns an array, but what do those three functions return? How do I use them so that they can act like the file() function?

[MarCrush 0]

Why do you want to use a different function instead of file() . If it works just fine, why not use it.

[snlildude87 0]

Why do you want to use a different function instead of file() . If it works just fine, why not use it.

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Because the server where I'm at right now doesn't allow that. Anyway, I found an alternative:

 

$filestring = file_get_contents($filename);    $filearray = explode("\n", $filestring);

Thanks anyway. I'm closing this thread now since my question is solved.