How to use include function with print or echo using php

Question

I have tried everything to get a full path printed when I click on the Browse button and I tried to get help from the community:

Writing the full path of the file when it is browsed using php

But apparently for security reasons it is not possible. So I have tried to find a way around it. Since I know the location of the files that I am browsing (the user doesn't know it) I have copied the URL in a text file and used inclue to read the URL from the text file and put it in a text box on my webpage.

<input name="A" type="text" VALUE="<?PHP echo include("/var/www/html/test.txt");?>" size="20">

Something odd happens in the text box and there is always a "1" added for some reason at the end of the URL. For example, instead of

www/htdocs/inc

I get

www/htdocs/inc1

in the text box.

Any idea what's going on?

Amal · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-22 16:44:51Z

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The include statement includes and evaluates the specified file. It's used when you want to include additional PHP code. In this case, you're just wanting to output what's in a text file, so you don't need include. You can just use file_get_contents() instead:

VALUE="<?PHP echo file_get_contents("/var/www/html/test.txt");?>"

answered Oct 22, 2015 at 16:44

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