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Posted by Erwin Moller on 03/23/07 16:54
Davide wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've got a textual file with some words inside:
>
> file = foo.txt
>
> foo1 foo2
> foo3 foo4
> foo5 foo6
>
> I would like to print this text on a the web.
> I tried to use the file function:
>
> $file = "/var/www/backup/foo.txt";
> $content = file_get_contents($file);
> echo "$content";
>
> but I get
> foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6
>
> how can I get the output as the original file?
> Really thanx
That IS the original file. Really. :-)
Browsers do not display the newline character \n.
They ignore it.
If you need a newline in HTML use <br>.
So you have to replace your newlines with <br> before echoing it.
eg:
echo nl2br($content);
or
echo str_replace("\n","<br>",$content);
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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