[PHP] Get file contents instead of including it

September 23, 2012 2 Replies

This is an example available at the php’s manual. I am posting this here for later reference.

This function gets the file’s content – instead of just including it.


function get_include_contents($filename) {
 if (is_file($filename)) {
 ob_start();
 include $filename;
 return ob_get_clean();
 }
 return false;
}

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2 thoughts on “[PHP] Get file contents instead of including it”

kamasheto

September 23, 2012 at 5:51 pm

function get_include_contents($filename) { if (is_file($filename)) { return file_get_contents($filename); }
return false; }

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- Galal Aly
  
  August 3, 2013 at 5:43 pm
  
  I think it depends whether you want to execute the php code inside your file.
  
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