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Posted by Kim Andrι Akerψ on 01/18/07 22:54
rfhurley wrote:
> I used this script (even tried a cut 'n' paste):
>
> // open file
> $file = fopen("welcome.txt", "r");
>
> // fetch contents of file (using filesize() to fetch the entire file
> contents
> $contents = fread($file, filesize($file));
>
> // close file, since we don't need to read it further in this session
> fclose($file);
>
> // output contents
> echo $contents;
>
>
> this didn't work. And I tried (again, I tried it a second time,
> cutting & pasting from your example):
>
> echo file_read_contents("welcome.txt");
>
>
> the "readfile()" example worked, although it ran all the lines into
> one line. But finally I found the "fgets()" function (using the
> "feof()" function to read line-by-line), and that printed out the
> text file the way I wrote it. Is there some version-related caveat to
> the "contents" functions that may affect whether they work or not
> over certain servers?
> Any 411 on that would be helpful.
>
> Thanks again!
If you're outputting this to a HTML page, you might want to do this:
echo nl2br(file_read_contents("welcome.txt"));
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