Php read file contents of network share file

Question

I\'m looking for a way to read the file contents of a file located on a network share. I can use the IP Address of the share host and the share folder to get to the locatio

Answer 1

According to PHP Filesystem manual UNC/SMB files should be accessible. Try the following:

\\server\share\file.txt

It may be one of those cases where the // may be mistook as a reference to the root directory. And given this is an SMB path, I would use the traditional backslashes.