What alternative PHP functions can be used to read a file and store its contents in an array?

When you need to read a file and store its contents in an array in PHP, you can use functions like `file_get_contents` to read the file contents into a string, and then use `explode` to split the string into an array based on a delimiter like a newline character. Another alternative is to use `file` function which directly reads the file into an array, with each line of the file becoming an element in the array. 

// Using file_get_contents and explode
$file_contents = file_get_contents('file.txt');
$file_array = explode("\n", $file_contents);

// Using file function
$file_array = file('file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);

Keywords

file_get_contents explode fread fgets file()

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