Read text from a file and display

[ldavies83]

I saw a post a couple of months back for updating the Shipping & Returns page to read a text file into the PHP template. This made rolling out multiple shops very easy. However I cannot find it anywhere now. I believe the syntax would be similar to this:

 

MyText = "e:wwwrootSandR.txt"

define('TEXT_INFORMATION', MyText);

 

But I dont know what the keyword to read the file in would be. Anybody be able to figure this one out, as it's very handy for T's & C's, etc

 

 

Thanks,

 

L.

[mattice]

Have a look at www.php.net/read and www.php.net/file

That should make clear what to do.

 

Regards,

Mattice

[ldavies83]

Thanks Mattice, as usual you my sir, are a bonified star :stupid:

 

For future reference, there are two ways of doing this, one by file, the other by database:

 

by file: use the PHP command 'readfile' (help available at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php)

 

By Database, I found this contrib:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,544/page,4

 

As always a kick in the right direction is generally all that is needed. Thanks again for your swift response.

 

 

L.