Why doesn't file_get_contents work?

Question

Why does file_get_contents not work for me? In the test file code below, it seems that everyone\'s examples that I\'ve searched for all have this func

Answer 1

If it is a local file, you have to wrap it in htmlspecialchars like so:

    $myfile = htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents($file_name));

Then it works