Files

• $file = fopen('foo.txt', 'r')
• $file = fopen('foo2.txt', 'w')
• $file = fopen('foo3.txt', 'a')



• $line = fgets($file)
• $string = fread($file, $numberOfBytes)
• fwrite($file, $text)
• fclose($file)



• $text = file_get_contents('foo.txt')
• file_put_contents('foo2.txt',$outputText)

Some other useful functions

• $string2 = trim($string)
• $arr = explode(' ', $string)
• print_r($arr)
• $numItems = count($arr)
• $n = rand(0,10)

In class

Extend random sentence script to generate multiple sentences, and include random images, chosen from
http://davepape.org/ub/dms315/06/imagelist.txt

This document is by Dave Pape, and is released under a Creative Commons License.