Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007

file_get_contents

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

file_get_contents — 将整个文件读入一个字符串

说明

string file_get_contents ( string $filename [, bool $use_include_path [, resource $context [, int $offset [, int $maxlen ]]]] )

和 file() 一样，只除了 file_get_contents() 把文件读入一个字符串。将在参数 offset 所指定的位置开始读取长度为 maxlen 的内容。如果失败，file_get_contents() 将返回 FALSE。

file_get_contents() 函数是用来将文件的内容读入到一个字符串中的首选方法。如果操作系统支持还会使用内存映射技术来增强性能。

Note: 如果要打开有特殊字符的 URL （比如说有空格），就需要使用 urlencode() 进行 URL 编码。

Note: context 参数可以用 NULL 来忽略。

更新日志

版本	说明
5.0.0	添加了对 context 的支持。
5.1.0	添加了 `offset` 和 `maxlen` 参数。

注释

Note: 本函数可安全用于二进制对象。

Tip

如果“fopen wrappers”已经被激活，则在本函数中可以把 URL 作为文件名来使用。请参阅 fopen() 函数来获取怎样指定文件名的详细信息以及支持 URL 封装协议的列表：支持的协议／封装协议列表。

Note: 对 context 的支持是 PHP 5.0.0 添加的。有关 context 的说明见Streams。

Warning

当使用 SSL 时，Microsoft IIS 将违反协议不发送 close_notify 标记就关闭连接。PHP 将在到达数据尾端时报告 "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error"。要绕过此问题，应将 error_reporting 级别降低为不包括警告。PHP 4.3.7 及更高版本可以在当使用 https:// 封装协议打开流的时候检测出有此问题的 IIS 服务器并抑制警告。如果使用 fsockopen() 来创建一个 ssl:// 套接字，则需要自己检测并抑制警告信息。

参见

file_put_contents

file_exists

Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007

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file_get_contents

anotheruser at example dot com
27-Aug-2008 06:19


In response to EOD (07-Aug-2008 08:34) - this function is not designed to parse php files.  It only returns the full contents of any file into a string.



If you're looking to parse a php file and output the full results into a string, you could use the ob_ functions wrapped around an 'include' instead:



<?php



    ob_start();

    include($filename);

    $return_str = ob_get_contents();

    ob_end_clean();



?>

colnector bla-at_bla colnect.com
10-Aug-2008 11:34


A UTF-8 issue I've encountered is that of reading a URL with a non-UTF-8 encoding that is later displayed improperly since file_get_contents() related to it as UTF-8. This small function should show you how to address this issue:





<?php


function file_get_contents_utf8($fn) {


     $content = file_get_contents($fn);


      return mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', 


          mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true));


}


?>

EOD
07-Aug-2008 02:34


if $filename has a relative path file_get_contents returns the uninterpreted sourcecode of the php-file with all comments etc.



I don't know whether this is a bug or intented or caused by server-configuration.



I think this behaviour should be included in the description of the function.

daniele dot ricci at staff dot dada dot net
05-Aug-2008 01:13


I recently upgraded my server to Slackware 12.0.



After this, a program of mine stopped working: the call to file_get_contents (to an URL served by a custom HTTP server) was returning false without generating any error!



After some investigations I saw this: my custom HTTP server closes the connection at the end of the content. This (without the header "Connection: close") seems to cause the problem I described.



To solve the problem I simply added that header to the answer of my custom HTTP server.

pascalxusPLEASENOSPAM at yahoo dot com
19-Jul-2008 02:17


if( false == ($str=file_get_contents( '../relative_path/test.txt' )))

    echo "Could not read file.";

  else

    echo "File contents: $str";



  # Note: if the file cannot be opened then file_get_contents will attempt to warn the following:

  # Warning: file_get_contents(filename): failed to open stream

http://www.codesplunk.com/nr/questions/php1.html

joachimb at gmail dot com
15-Apr-2008 11:38


Setting the timeout properly without messing with ini values:





<?php


$ctx = stream_context_create(array(


    'http' => array(


        'timeout' => 1


        )


    )


);


file_get_contents("http://example.com/", 0, $ctx);


?>

3n1gm4 [at] gmail [dot] com
02-Apr-2008 11:12


This is a nice and simple substitute to get_file_contents() using curl, it returns FALSE if $contents is empty.



<?php

function curl_get_file_contents($URL)

    {

        $c = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);

        $contents = curl_exec($c);

        curl_close($c);



        if ($contents) return $contents;

            else return FALSE;

    }

?>



Hope this help, if there is something wrong or something you don't understand let me know :)

jose dot nobile at gmail dot com
29-Jan-2008 08:29


<?PHP

//PHP 4.2.x Compatibility function

if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {

      function file_get_contents($filename, $incpath = false, $resource_context = null)

      {

          if (false === $fh = fopen($filename, 'rb', $incpath)) {

              trigger_error('file_get_contents() failed to open stream: No such file or directory', E_USER_WARNING);

              return false;

          }

  

          clearstatcache();

          if ($fsize = @filesize($filename)) {

              $data = fread($fh, $fsize);

          } else {

              $data = '';

              while (!feof($fh)) {

                  $data .= fread($fh, 8192);

              }

          }

  

          fclose($fh);

          return $data;

      }

  }

?>

php [spat] hm2k.org
16-Jan-2008 12:58


I decided to make a similar function to this, called file_post_contents, it uses POST instead of GET to call, kinda handy...



<?php

function file_post_contents($url,$headers=false) {

    $url = parse_url($url);



    if (!isset($url['port'])) {

      if ($url['scheme'] == 'http') { $url['port']=80; }

      elseif ($url['scheme'] == 'https') { $url['port']=443; }

    }

    $url['query']=isset($url['query'])?$url['query']:'';



    $url['protocol']=$url['scheme'].'://';

    $eol="\r\n";



    $headers =  "POST ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path']." HTTP/1.0".$eol. 

                "Host: ".$url['host'].$eol. 

                "Referer: ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path'].$eol. 

                "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded".$eol. 

                "Content-Length: ".strlen($url['query']).$eol.

                $eol.$url['query'];

    $fp = fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 30); 

    if($fp) {

      fputs($fp, $headers);

      $result = '';

      while(!feof($fp)) { $result .= fgets($fp, 128); }

      fclose($fp);

      if (!$headers) {

        //removes headers

        $pattern="/^.*\r\n\r\n/s";

        $result=preg_replace($pattern,'',$result);

      }

      return $result;

    }

}

?>

francois hill
03-Dec-2007 05:56


Seems file looks for the file inside the current working (executing) directory before looking in the include path, even with the FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH flag specified.



Same behavior as include actually.



By the way I feel the doc is not entirely clear on the exact order of inclusion (see include). It seems to say the include_path is the first location to be searched, but I have come across at least one case where the directory containing the file including was actually the first to be searched.



Drat.

bearachute at gmail dot com
11-Jul-2007 11:38


If you're having problems with binary and hex data:



I had a problem when trying to read information from a ttf, which is primarily hex data. A binary-safe file read automatically replaces byte values with their corresponding ASCII characters, so I thought that I could use the binary string when I needed readable ASCII strings, and bin2hex() when I needed hex strings.



However, this became a problem when I tried to pass those ASCII strings into other functions (namely gd functions). var_dump showed that a 5-character string contained 10 characters, but they weren't visible. A binary-to-"normal" string conversion function didn't seem to exist and I didn't want to have to convert every single character in hex using chr().



I used unpack with "c*" as the format flag to see what was going on, and found that every other character was null data (ordinal 0). To solve it, I just did



str_replace(chr(0), "", $string);



which did the trick.



This took forever to figure out so I hope this helps people reading from hex data!

tobsn at php dot net
02-May-2007 06:26


you'll find the http response headers in: $http_response_header



;o)

Greg Ambrose (greg at catalina-it dot com dot au)
17-Apr-2007 06:37


[Editors note: As of PHP 5.2.1 you can specify `timeout` context option and pass the context to file_get_contents()]





The only way I could get get_file_contents() to wait for a very slow http request was to set the socket timeout as follows.





 ini_set('default_socket_timeout',    120);    


$a = file_get_contents("http://abcxyz.com");





Other times like execution time and input time had no effect.

siegfri3d at gmail dot com
05-Dec-2006 09:52


Use the previous example if you want to request the server for a special part of the content, IF and only if the server accepts the method.

If you want a simple example to ask the server for all the content, but only save a portion of it, do it this way:

<?

$content=file_get_contents("http://www.google.com",FALSE,NULL,0,20);

echo $content;

?>



This will echo the 20 first bytes of the google.com source code.

fcicqbbs at gmail dot com
04-Aug-2006 10:55


the bug #36857 was fixed.

http://bugs.php.net/36857



Now you may use this code,to fetch the partial content like this:

<?php

$context=array('http' => array ('header'=> 'Range: bytes=1024-', ),);

$xcontext = stream_context_create($context);

$str=file_get_contents("http://www.fcicq.net/wp/",FALSE,$xcontext);

?>

that's all.

richard dot quadling at bandvulc dot co dot uk
15-Nov-2005 11:47


If, like me, you are on a Microsoft network with ISA server and require NTLM authentication, certain applications will not get out of the network. SETI@Home Classic and PHP are just 2 of them.



The workaround is fairly simple.



First you need to use an NTLM Authentication Proxy Server. There is one written in Python and is available from http://apserver.sourceforge.net/. You will need Python from http://www.python.org/.



Both sites include excellent documentation.



Python works a bit like PHP. Human readable code is handled without having to produce a compiled version. You DO have the opportunity of compiling the code (from a .py file to a .pyc file).



Once compiled, I installed this as a service (instsrv and srvany - parts of the Windows Resource Kit), so when the server is turned on (not logged in), the Python based NTLM Authentication Proxy Server is running.



Then, and here is the bit I'm really interested in, you need to tell PHP you intend to route http/ftp requests through the NTLM APS.



To do this, you use contexts.



Here is an example.



<?php



// Define a context for HTTP.

$aContext = array(

    'http' => array(

        'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8080', // This needs to be the server and the port of the NTLM Authentication Proxy Server.

        'request_fulluri' => True,

        ),

    );

$cxContext = stream_context_create($aContext);



// Now all file stream functions can use this context.



$sFile = file_get_contents("http://www.php.net", False, $cxContext);



echo $sFile;

?>



Hopefully this helps SOMEONE!!!

aidan at php dot net
31-Jan-2005 08:23


This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.



More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:



http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat

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