editing a file

Cant seem to open/edit

[nfs2]

Trying to open a file so its contents display in a textarea, so i can edit it.

<?php
$file = 'templates/journals/layout.tpl';
$body = fopen($file, 'a') or die("can't open file");
?>
<textarea style="width: 800px; height: 600px"><?php $body;?></textarea>

This doenst work. Using echo doesnt work either. Does anyone know how to do this?

[ahmedtheking]

Try this:

<?php
$myfile = implode("",file("path/to/file.txt"));
?>

<textarea ... ><?=$myfile;?></textarea>

[dreamcatcher]

Or use file_get_contents:

$body = file_get_contents($file);

echo $body;

dc

[nfs2]

Thanks for the help guys, the first one worked great.

Im sure the 2nd suggestion would work too, but i havent tried it. Thanks to both of you anyways.

[jatar_k]

the fopen didn't work because all that returns is a file pointer

you would need to use that file pointer and then use fread or similar to get the actual data from the file