Re: [uug] reading a flat-file database in on another

[Jon Jensen]

The problem may not be with your code per se, but as Phillip pointed out, 
you might need to use curl (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php). 
Normally you should be able to use either fopen or file to retrieve it, but 
from the looks of it, your server needs authentication and that could be 
where your script is running into problems.

For the record here's a little bit about file() and how to use it:

file() works differently then fopen(), and is usually only useful if each 
record in your flat-file databse is delimited by newline characters.

Here's one example of how you can use it:

$filecontents = file("/path/to/file.txt");
while(list($key, $var) = each($filecontents)) {
 echo "<b>".$key."</b> ".$var."<br>";
}
This would output the contents of the file with the line number preceding 
each line. file() is nice because it does all of the work for you.

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