file_get_contents

[boogyman]

I have a script that is attempting to store the contents of a file on my server to a variable as a string, which later will be printed out. The file is the <map></map> tag of an image map, but for some reason it will not grab the content.

The server I am running is linux based, and the php.ini file is set to allow file_get_contents, as I did a test of pulling in just a regular text file.
I tried the UNIX relative path, UNIX absolute path, DOCROOT relative path, DOCROOT absolute path. but nothing is grabbing the contents.

I also tried both the (.map) and (.txt) extensions on all 4 path types, again nothing.

There is no error/warning being reported by PHP, and the file itself is viewable

$map = '';
$map = file_get_contents("http://vuteksupport.com/images/parts/maps/aa94005-7.map"); 

I also tried fopen / fread and still no errors, no blockcode.

I checked on php.net to see if there was sometype of flag I needed to enable, but I couldn't see any... any help? Thanks

[boogyman]

okay i feel retarded... it didnt show up in the variable output because its html tags. when i check the source of the file it shows ...

I believe the appropriate term is DUHHHHH!