Date: 2018jun1 Language: php Q. PHP: load a file into a string A. To read a file from disk into a string?

$s = file_get_contents('my_file.txt'); # correct

Do NOT use readfile()

$s = readfile('my_file.txt'); # WRONG

readfile() will pass the file thru to the browser and put the number of byte info your string. There is probably a place for this function but I bet its used wrong more often than not.