[FX.php List] [OFF] PHP question: Pulling in text from a file

[Chris Hansen]

Bob,

Note that you can use the unlink() function to delete uploaded files  
directly on the page where you're working with them, so you won't have  
to periodically remove them by hand...  HTH

--Chris

On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Michael,
>
> So is there any advantage to using your method over what I used?  
> They both require the file to be uploaded first...
>
> What I was trying to get to work was this:
> ---
> $postText = trim(file_get_contents('php://input'));
> echo $postText;
> ---
>
> But it never worked; I fooled with ENCTYPE, since the php.net site  
> mentioned that it wouldn't work with multipart/form-data, and set it  
> to text/xml, but that didn't work either, on XML or any other kind  
> of text document.
>
> It would be great if I could figure out a way to do it so that the  
> file didn't have to get uploaded, which would keep me from having to  
> clear these out every now and then, but so long as it works, which  
> it does now, I'm at least up and running...
>
> Thoughts welcome!
>
> Best,
>
> Bob Patin
>
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> On Mar 7, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Head Honcho wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> On 08/03/2009, at 10:37 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks; I was all over php.net this afternoon,
>>
>> BTW, I use PHP Function index <http://www.artissoftware.com/phpfi/>  
>> which allows me to seach for php stuff right on my desktop.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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