File_get_contents()

[Cod-nes]

Is there another way to get the file contends other than file_get_contents?

[zppblood]

PHP has many functions that do the samething or are a little different.From php.netfile_get_contents() is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string. It will use memory mapping techniques if supported by your OS to enhance performance.You can use file(), but that returns an array with each line being an element of that array.

[jeffman]

For PHP 4x, use fread(). See example 1 here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

[Synook]

If you are retrieving the file from a remote server that is blocking the direct HTTP request (the Digg API does this, for example), then you can use an extension like cURL...