Please take another look at the manual page on fopen().  You're not using it
correctly.  fopen() does not return the contents of the file, it retuns a
resource handel.  You pass the handel as a parameter to fread() in order to
read the file.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

If all you want is to get the contents of a file into a variable then you
can use something like this:
$contents = implode('', file("myfile.txt"));

- Kevin

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From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: [PHP] fopen


> #http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
>
> $contents = fopen ("/home/pathto/file.txt", "r");
>
> if ($contents){echo"<textarea>$contents</textarea>";}
> else{echo "no contents there";}
>
> Questions:
> What is the use of "@fopen"?
> Does anyone see a better way?
>
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