从URL txt获取文本

Question

Is there any way to get a simple php code that just displays the text from a txt document, that's on a url?

This is what I've got so far. I'm sure I'm missing something~

<?
$text = file_get_contents('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28653637/Snip/Snip/Snip.txt');
fopen ($text)
?>

Guessing you can't open it, since it's not on the drive. Any workaround that, or fix you guys could help me with?

Thanks (:

Answer 1

Too easy! :)

$text = file_get_contents('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28653637/Snip/Snip/Snip.txt');
echo $text;

Explanation:

file_get_contents() will return the contents of the remote file and assign it to the $text variable. Then you'll just have to ouput these contents using the echo statement

Alternative : use the readfile() function. It will output the contents of the file directly:

readfile('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28653637/Snip/Snip/Snip.txt');

Answer 2

You don't have to open it. It's already appended as a string to the variable $text .

$text = file_get_contents('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28653637/Snip/Snip/Snip.txt');
echo $text;
//Outputs "“Why Don't You Get A Job?” ― The Offspring"