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Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/12/06 09:13
"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.p8p96@burditt.org> wrote in message
news:11u7q6h585bvi34@corp.supernews.com...
> >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 ($content);
>>?>
>>But in file news.txt I have formating that is not showing, but
>>interpreting.
>
> If you output the content of a file in the middle of a bunch
> of HTML, it will be interpreted as HTML.
>
>>For example, in that file there is:
>><a href="link.php">link</a>
>>End result is hyperlink.
>>
>>Can you tell me what I did wrong?
>
> I suggest something like:
>
> echo (htmlentities($content));
you could try
echo nl2br(htmlentities($content));
which gives me
<?php echo nl2br(htmlentities("\"\n\"")); ?>
"<br />
"
(note that the newlines are still in there)
the 5.0 manual states that it uses xhtml's <br />. someone else stated it
didn't (maybe they were using an earlier version?).
>
> Although I don't think that will deal with newlines being interpreted
> as going to a new line, vs. HTML ignoring line breaks.
>
> Gordon L. Burditt
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