Problem with file()

[ahmedtheking]

I've got a problem with file(), it seems to not be reading the file into an array line by line, but just the whole file!

[Sekka]

That is strange. What file are you reading?

[ahmedtheking]

It's this:

The only way I resolved the issue was by changing the file so that instead of there being new lines, the file would be one line, but each line (previous line that is) is seperated by '___'

[edited by: jatar_k at 11:05 pm (utc) on July 3, 2006]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]

[Sekka]

Try using this method,

$myPage = file_get_contents ("url");
$myArray = split ("\n", $myPage);

This will get the page as a complete string, like file () is doing for you at the moment, then splits each line to an array using the new line break.

That should work at least.

[ahmedtheking]

I'll try that out, sorry about the urls. Any idea why file() may not work?

[Sekka]

Possibly because it's raw text and there's no normal file format? No idea. :(

[ahmedtheking]

What do you mean?

[Sekka]

I'm not sure to be honest. It was a wild guess. Ignore me. :)

[coopster]

Are you using a Mac? Did you read the notes on the file() [php.net] manual page?

Note: If you are having problems with PHP not recognizing the line endings when reading files either on or created by a Macintosh computer, you might want to enable the auto_detect_line_endings run-time configuration option.

[ahmedtheking]

I'm using a mac, but the server is linux. It's all good now, recompiled PHP!