I've got a php file echoing hashes from a MySQL database. This is necessary for a remote program I'm using, but at the same time I need my other php script opening and checking it for specified strings POST parsing. If it checks for the string pre-parsing, it'll just get the MySQL query rather than the strings to look for.

I'm not sure if any functions do this. Does fopen() read the file prior to parsing? or file_get_contents()?

If so, is there a function that'll read the file after the php and mysql code runs?

The file with the hashes query and echo is in the same directory as the php file reading it, if that makes a difference.

Perhaps fopen reads it post-parse, and I've done something wrong, but at first I was storing the hashes directly in the file, and it was working fine. After I changed it to echo the contents of the MySQL table, it bugged out.