Is PHP capable of reading?

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I am porting from ASP.net C# to PHP on OS X.

As in ASp.net I would type :

....
fp = IO.File.OpenRead(Server.MapPath("" + "\text.txt"));
....

How can I do this in PHP ..

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<?php
$filename = "temp.txt";
$fh = fopen($filename, 'r') or die("can't find file");
$Data = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
$fclose($fh);
echo $Data;
?>