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dc-description"> <span class="methodname"><strong>file_get_contents</strong></span>(<br>    <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.php" class="type string">string</a></span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>,<br>    <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.boolean.php" class="type bool">bool</a></span> <code class="parameter">$use_include_path</code><span class="initializer"> = <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.false">false</a></code></strong></span></span>,<br>    <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.null.php" class="type null">?</a></span><span class="type"><a href="language.types.resource.php" class="type resource">resource</a></span></span> <code class="parameter">$context</code><span class="initializer"> = <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.null">null</a></code></strong></span></span>,<br>    <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.integer.php" class="type int">int</a></span> <code class="parameter">$offset</code><span class="initializer"> = 0</span></span>,<br>    <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.null.php" class="type null">?</a></span><span class="type"><a href="language.types.integer.php" class="type int">int</a></span></span> <code class="parameter">$length</code><span class="initializer"> = <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.null">null</a></code></strong></span></span><br>): <span class="type"><span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.php" class="type string">string</a></span>|<span class="type"><a href="language.types.value.php" class="type false">false</a></span></span></div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This function is similar to <span class="function"><a href="function.file.php" class="function">file()</a></span>, except that <span class="function"><strong>file_get_contents()</strong></span> returns the file in a <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.php" class="type string">string</a></span>, starting at the specified <code class="parameter">offset</code> up to <code class="parameter">length</code> bytes. On failure, <span class="function"><strong>file_get_contents()</strong></span> will return <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.false">false</a></code></strong>. </p> <p class="para"> <span class="function"><strong>file_get_contents()</strong></span> is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string. It will use memory mapping techniques if supported by your OS to enhance performance. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> If you're opening a URI with special characters, such as spaces, you need to encode the URI with <span class="function"><a href="function.urlencode.php" class="function">urlencode()</a></span>. </p> </p></blockquote> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt><code class="parameter">filename</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> Name of the file to read. </p> </dd> <dt><code class="parameter">use_include_path</code></dt> <dd> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> The <strong><code><a href="filesystem.constants.php#constant.file-use-include-path">FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</a></code></strong> constant can be used to trigger <a href="ini.core.php#ini.include-path" class="link">include path</a> search. This is not possible if <a href="language.types.declarations.php#language.types.declarations.strict" class="link">strict typing</a> is enabled, since <strong><code><a href="filesystem.constants.php#constant.file-use-include-path">FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</a></code></strong> is an <span class="type"><a href="language.types.integer.php" class="type int">int</a></span>. Use <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.true">true</a></code></strong> instead. </p> </p></blockquote> </dd> <dt><code class="parameter">context</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> A valid context resource created with <span class="function"><a href="function.stream-context-create.php" class="function">stream_context_create()</a></span>. If you don't need to use a custom context, you can skip this parameter by <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.null">null</a></code></strong>. </p> </dd> <dt><code class="parameter">offset</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The offset where the reading starts on the original stream. Negative offsets count from the end of the stream. </p> <p class="para"> Seeking (<code class="parameter">offset</code>) is not supported with remote files. Attempting to seek on non-local files may work with small offsets, but this is unpredictable because it works on the buffered stream. </p> </dd> <dt><code class="parameter">length</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> Maximum length of data read. The default is to read until end of file is reached. Note that this parameter is applied to the stream processed by the filters. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> The function returns the read data or <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.false">false</a></code></strong> on failure. </p> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="simpara">This function may return Boolean <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.false">false</a></code></strong>, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to <strong><code><a href="reserved.constants.php#constant.false">false</a></code></strong>. Please read the section on <a href="language.types.boolean.php" class="link">Booleans</a> for more information. Use <a href="language.operators.comparison.php" class="link">the === operator</a> for testing the return value of this function.</p></div> </div> <div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-errors"> <h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3> <p class="para"> An <strong><code><a href="errorfunc.constants.php#constant.e-warning">E_WARNING</a></code></strong> level error is generated if <code class="parameter">filename</code> cannot be found, <code class="parameter">length</code> is less than zero, or if seeking to the specified <code class="parameter">offset</code> in the stream fails. </p> <p class="para"> When <span class="function"><strong>file_get_contents()</strong></span> is called on a directory, an <strong><code><a href="errorfunc.constants.php#constant.e-warning">E_WARNING</a></code></strong> level error is generated on Windows, and as of PHP 7.4 on other operating systems as well. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-changelog"> <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3> <p class="para"> <table class="doctable informaltable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="tbody"> <tr> <td>8.0.0</td> <td> <code class="parameter">length</code> is nullable now. </td> </tr> <tr> <td>7.1.0</td> <td> Support for negative <code class="parameter">offset</code>s has been added. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-2270"> <p><strong>Example #1 Get and output the source of the homepage of a website</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$homepage </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://www.example.com/'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$homepage</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="example" id="example-2271"> <p><strong>Example #2 Searching within the include_path</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// If strict types are enabled i.e. declare(strict_types=1);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$file </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'./people.txt'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Otherwise<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$file </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'./people.txt'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="example" id="example-2272"> <p><strong>Example #3 Reading a section of a file</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Read 14 characters starting from the 21st character<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$section </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'./people.txt'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">FALSE</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">NULL</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">20</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">14</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$section</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output something similar to:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="examplescode"><pre class="examplescode">string(14) "lle Bjori Ro"</pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="example" id="example-2273"> <p><strong>Example #4 Using stream contexts</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Create a stream<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$opts </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(<br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http'</span><span style="color: #007700">=>array(<br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'method'</span><span style="color: #007700">=></span><span style="color: #DD0000">"GET"</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'header'</span><span style="color: #007700">=></span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Accept-language: en\r\n" </span><span style="color: #007700">.<br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Cookie: foo=bar\r\n"<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">)<br />);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$context </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">stream_context_create</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$opts</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Open the file using the HTTP headers set above<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$file </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://www.example.com/'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">false</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$context</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-notes"> <h3 class="title">Notes</h3> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">This function is binary-safe.</span></p></blockquote> <div class="tip"><strong class="tip">Tip</strong><p class="simpara">A URL can be used as a filename with this function if the <a href="filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen" class="link">fopen wrappers</a> have been enabled. See <span class="function"><a href="function.fopen.php" class="function">fopen()</a></span> for more details on how to specify the filename. See the <a href="wrappers.php" class="xref">Supported Protocols and Wrappers</a> for links to information about what abilities the various wrappers have, notes on their usage, and information on any predefined variables they may provide.</p></div> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="para">When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the connection without sending a <code class="literal">close_notify</code> indicator. PHP will report this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the data. To work around this, the value of <a href="errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.error-reporting" class="link">error_reporting</a> should be lowered to a level that does not include warnings. PHP can detect buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the <code class="literal">https://</code> wrapper and will suppress the warning. When using <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.php" class="function">fsockopen()</a></span> to create an <code class="literal">ssl://</code> socket, the developer is responsible for detecting and suppressing this warning.</p></div> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.file-get-contents-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.file.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">file()</a> - Reads entire file into an array</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.fgets.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fgets()</a> - Gets line from file pointer</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.fread.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fread()</a> - Binary-safe file read</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.readfile.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">readfile()</a> - Outputs a file</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.file-put-contents.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">file_put_contents()</a> - Write data to a file</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.stream-get-contents.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">stream_get_contents()</a> - Reads remainder of a stream into a string</span></li> <li><span class="function"><a href="function.stream-context-create.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">stream_context_create()</a> - Creates a stream context</span></li> <li><a href="reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php" class="link">$http_response_header</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div> <div class="contribute"> <h3 class="title">Found A Problem?</h3> <div> </div> <div class="edit-bug"> <a href="https://github.com/php/doc-base/blob/master/README.md" title="This will take you to our contribution guidelines on GitHub" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn How To Improve This Page</a> • <a href="https://github.com/php/doc-en/blob/master/reference/filesystem/functions/file-get-contents.xml">Submit a Pull Request</a> • <a href="https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/new?body=From%20manual%20page:%20https:%2F%2Fphp.net%2Ffunction.file-get-contents%0A%0A---">Report a Bug</a> </div> </div><section id="usernotes"> <div class="head"> <span class="action"><a href="/manual/add-note.php?sect=function.file-get-contents&repo=en&redirect=https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">＋<small>add a note</small></a></span> <h3 class="title">User Contributed Notes <span class="count">6 notes</span></h3> </div><div id="allnotes"> <div class="note" id="108309"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu108309"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=108309&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd108309"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=108309&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V108309" title="51% like this..."> 39 </div> </div> <a href="#108309" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>Bart Friederichs</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#108309"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2012-04-16 12:17"><strong>12 years ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom108309"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">file_get_contents can do a POST, create a context for that first: <br /> <br /><span class="default"><?php <br /> <br />$opts </span><span class="keyword">= array(</span><span class="string">'http' </span><span class="keyword">=> <br /> array( <br /> </span><span class="string">'method' </span><span class="keyword">=> </span><span class="string">'POST'</span><span class="keyword">, <br /> </span><span class="string">'header' </span><span class="keyword">=> </span><span class="string">"Content-Type: text/xml\r\n"</span><span class="keyword">. <br /> </span><span class="string">"Authorization: Basic "</span><span class="keyword">.</span><span class="default">base64_encode</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="string">"</span><span class="default">$https_user</span><span class="string">:</span><span class="default">$https_password</span><span class="string">"</span><span class="keyword">).</span><span class="string">"\r\n"</span><span class="keyword">, <br /> </span><span class="string">'content' </span><span class="keyword">=> </span><span class="default">$body</span><span class="keyword">, <br /> </span><span class="string">'timeout' </span><span class="keyword">=> </span><span class="default">60 <br /> </span><span class="keyword">) <br />); <br /> <br /></span><span class="default">$context </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">stream_context_create</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="default">$opts</span><span class="keyword">); <br /></span><span class="default">$url </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="string">'<a href="https://" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://</a>'</span><span class="keyword">.</span><span class="default">$https_server</span><span class="keyword">; <br /></span><span class="default">$result </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">file_get_contents</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="default">$url</span><span class="keyword">, </span><span class="default">false</span><span class="keyword">, </span><span class="default">$context</span><span class="keyword">, -</span><span class="default">1</span><span class="keyword">, </span><span class="default">40000</span><span class="keyword">); <br /> <br /></span><span class="default">?></span></span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="note" id="128784"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu128784"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=128784&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd128784"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=128784&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V128784" title="60% like this..."> 5 </div> </div> <a href="#128784" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>brentcontact at daha dot us</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#128784"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2023-08-08 10:55"><strong>1 year ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom128784"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">To prevent mixed content most browsers/functions will use the protocol already used if you specify only // instead of <a href="http://" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://</a> or <a href="https://." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://.</a> This is not the case with file_get_contents. You must specify the protocol. <br /><br />This does not work:<br /><span class="default"><?php<br />$jsonData </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">file_get_contents</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="string">'//example.com/file.json'</span><span class="keyword">);<br />print </span><span class="default">$jsonData</span><span class="keyword">;<br /></span><span class="default">?><br /></span><br />Specifying only 'example.com/file.json' without the double slash does not work either.<br /><br />When running on Apache 2.4 , using $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] is a better way to be protocol agnostic.<br /><span class="default"><?php<br />$jsonData </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">file_get_contents</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="default">$_SERVER</span><span class="keyword">[</span><span class="string">'REQUEST_SCHEME'</span><span class="keyword">].</span><span class="string">'://example.com/file.json'</span><span class="keyword">);<br />print </span><span class="default">$jsonData</span><span class="keyword">;<br /></span><span class="default">?><br /></span><br />If using another web server, you may have to get the protocol another way or hard code it.</span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="note" id="129074"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu129074"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=129074&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd129074"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=129074&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V129074" title="59% like this..."> 4 </div> </div> <a href="#129074" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>KC</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#129074"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2023-11-29 01:58"><strong>1 year ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom129074"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">If doing a negative offset to grab the end of a file and the file is shorter than the offset, then file_get_contents( ) will return false.<br /><br />If you want it to just return what is available when the file is shorter than the negative offset, you could try again.<br /><br />For example...<br /><br />$contents = file_get_contents( $log_file, false, null, -4096 ); // Get last 4KB<br /><br />if ( false === $contents ) {<br /> // Maybe error, or maybe file less than 4KB in size.<br /><br /> $contents = file_get_contents( $log_file, false, null );<br /><br /> if ( false === $contents ) {<br /> // Handle real error.<br /> }<br />}</span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="note" id="130027"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu130027"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=130027&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd130027"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=130027&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V130027" title="100% like this..."> 1 </div> </div> <a href="#130027" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>julien at pixeye dot net</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#130027"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2025-02-14 12:25"><strong>15 days ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom130027"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">See also: http_get_last_response_headers() function to get last HTTP response headers including the HTTP response status code (200, 404, ...)</span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="note" id="127655"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu127655"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=127655&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd127655"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=127655&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V127655" title="48% like this..."> -2 </div> </div> <a href="#127655" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>soger</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#127655"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2022-09-20 12:54"><strong>2 years ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom127655"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">There's barely a mention on this page but the $http_response_header will be populated with the HTTP headers if your file was a link. For example if you're expecting an image you can do this:<br /><br /><span class="default"><?php<br />$data </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">file_get_contents</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="string">'<a href="https://example.net/some-link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://example.net/some-link</a>'</span><span class="keyword">);<br /><br /></span><span class="default">$mimetype </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">null</span><span class="keyword">;<br />foreach (</span><span class="default">$http_response_header </span><span class="keyword">as </span><span class="default">$v</span><span class="keyword">) {<br /> if (</span><span class="default">preg_match</span><span class="keyword">(</span><span class="string">'/^content\-type:\s*(image\/[^;\s\n\r]+)/i'</span><span class="keyword">, </span><span class="default">$v</span><span class="keyword">, </span><span class="default">$m</span><span class="keyword">)) {<br /> </span><span class="default">$mimetype </span><span class="keyword">= </span><span class="default">$m</span><span class="keyword">[</span><span class="default">1</span><span class="keyword">];<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />if (!</span><span class="default">$mimetype</span><span class="keyword">) {<br /> </span><span class="comment">// not an image<br /></span><span class="keyword">}</span></span></code></div> </div> </div> <div class="note" id="128313"> <div class="votes"> <div id="Vu128313"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=128313&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=up" title="Vote up!" class="usernotes-voteu">up</a> </div> <div id="Vd128313"> <a href="/manual/vote-note.php?id=128313&page=function.file-get-contents&vote=down" title="Vote down!" class="usernotes-voted">down</a> </div> <div class="tally" id="V128313" title="46% like this..."> -2 </div> </div> <a href="#128313" class="name"> <strong class="user"><em>daniel at dangarbri dot tech</em></strong></a><a class="genanchor" href="#128313"> ¶</a><div class="date" title="2023-03-16 04:20"><strong>1 year ago</strong></div> <div class="text" id="Hcom128313"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span class="html">Note that if an HTTP request fails but still has a response body, the result is still false, Not the response body which may have more details on why the request failed.</span></code></div> </div> </div></div> <div class="foot"><a href="/manual/add-note.php?sect=function.file-get-contents&repo=en&redirect=https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">＋<small>add a note</small></a></div> </section> </section> <aside class='layout-menu'> <ul class='parent-menu-list'> <li> <a href="ref.filesystem.php">Filesystem Functions</a> <ul class='child-menu-list'> <li class=""> <a href="function.basename.php" title="basename">basename</a> </li> <li class=""> <a href="function.chgrp.php" title="chgrp">chgrp</a> </li> <li class=""> <a href="function.chmod.php" title="chmod">chmod</a> </li> <li class=""> <a 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