Posted by NC on 02/04/06 05:56

Dalibor wrote:
>
> I have following code for putting contenst of a file into a web page:
> <?php
> $filename = "../msd/news.txt";
> $handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
> $content = fread ($handle, filesize($filename));
> fclose($handle);
> echo ($content);
> ?>
> But in file news.txt I have formating that is not showing, but
> interpreting.
> For example, in that file there is:
> <a href="link.php">link</a>
> End result is hyperlink.
>
> Can you tell me what I did wrong?

You forgot to output <pre> tags. Also, you should know that there is a
much faster and easier way of outputting a text file; you should use
readfile(). So your code should look like this:

$filename = "../msd/news.txt";
echo "<pre>\r\n";
readfile($filename);
echo "</pre>\r\n";

Cheers,
NC

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