Php read file contents of network share file

php file network-share
sadmicrowave picture sadmicrowave · Feb 21, 2011 · Viewed 31.9k times · Source

I'm looking for a way to read the file contents of a file located on a network share. I can use the IP Address of the share host and the share folder to get to the location but I don't know the correct command and syntax to do that file_get_contents? fopen? 

$text = fopen('//128.251.xxx.xxx/Common/sample.txt', 'r');

or something like that?

UPDATE* I also cannot access the file through a browser window although I know the file is located in that exact directory...

Answer

ircmaxell picture ircmaxell · Feb 22, 2011

The best way (depending on your needs) is to simply mount it on your local machine, and then read from the mount. That lets all the network interaction be abstracted away.

So, in Linux:

mount -t cifs //192.168.XXX.XXX/share /path/to/mount -o user=username,password=password

Then, in php, just access it from the mount point:

$data = file_get_contents('/path/to/mount/path/to/file.txt');

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