Text file retrieval

[Alpha]

Someone earlier asked me how they could retrieve everything from a text file and put it as the default text for a TEXTAREA form thing. For example, get the text from message.txt and place it in

<TEXTAREA NAME="textarea" ROWS="5" COLS="40" WRAP="physical">text from text file here</TEXTAREA>

Does anyone know how to do this so it is safe with most versions of PHP?

 

[adam_uk]

fopen?

<?php
$handle = fopen ("/home/rasmus/file.txt", "r");
?>

then echo $handle, the R denotes that the file is being opened for read only or you can try this way

<?php include("file.txt"); ?>

 

[Alpha]

Ok Thanks