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Salathe · 07-24-2009, 06:51 PM

Ok, a few points.

The line with fopen() is doing absolutely nothing useful in that script. It is the call to the file() function that brings in the file, fopen isn't needed.
To use file_get_contents to grab a file just use $content = file_get_contents($filename); along with that third line. That will do what the code snippet you showed does.
You're wanting to parse CSV data please don't try and do it manually: PHP has a built-in function called fgetcsv or it is super-easy to use SplFileObject::fgetcsv (see the 2nd example in particular).

07-24-2009, 06:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Salathe Moderateur Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,393 Thanks: 5	Ok, a few points. The line with fopen() is doing absolutely nothing useful in that script. It is the call to the file() function that brings in the file, fopen isn't needed. To use file_get_contents to grab a file just use `$content = file_get_contents($filename);` along with that third line. That will do what the code snippet you showed does. You're wanting to parse CSV data please don't try and do it manually: PHP has a built-in function called fgetcsv or it is super-easy to use SplFileObject::fgetcsv (see the 2nd example in particular).