Output text file with line breaks in PHP

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usertest picture usertest · Jan 13, 2010 · Viewed 50.5k times · Source

I'm trying to open a text file and output its contents with the code below. The text file includes line breaks but when I echo the file its unformatted. How do I fix this?

Thanks.

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

        $fh = fopen("filename.txt", 'r');

        $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);

        echo $pageText;


</body>

</html>

Answer

MattBelanger picture MattBelanger · Jan 13, 2010

To convert the plain text line breaks to html line breaks, try this:

    $fh = fopen("filename.txt", 'r');

    $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);

    echo nl2br($pageText);

Note the nl2br function wrapping the text.

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