Yes, I just want to edit a file in the textarea! thank you. ""Jay Blanchard"" <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:31454D514FF9A949B1FDFE294D5D1D8008017D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [snip] <html><head><title>..... <body>.............. <?php $handle = fopen("./menu.php", "r"); $contents = ""; if ($handle) { while (!feof($handle)) { $buffer = fgets($handle); $contents = $contents . $buffer; } fclose($handle); } echo "<textarea cols=80 rows=30>" . $contents . "</textarea>"; ?> </body> </html> [/snip] Try http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php <?php $contents = file_get_contents('./menu.php'); echo "<textarea cols=80 rows=30>" . $contents . "</textarea>"; ?> I am unsure what you want to do here, display the menu in the textarea? Or do you want to be able to edit menu.php in the textarea? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php