Can I read a .TXT file with PHP?

Question

As I start the process of writing my site in PHP and MySQL, one of the first PHP scripts I\'ve written is a script to initialize my database. Drop/create the database. Dro

Answer 1

All I need is a brief PHP example of how to open a TXT file on the server, read it sequentially, display the data on the screen, and close the file, as in this pseudo-code:

echo file_get_contents('/path/to/file.txt');

Yes that brief, see file_get_contents, you normally don't need a loop:

$file = new SPLFileObject('/path/to/file.txt');
foreach($file as $line) {
    echo $line;
}