Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/12/06 09:19

"NC" <nc@iname.com> wrote in message
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> 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";

even if you use pre, you still must use htmlentities() to produce valid HTML
(like on > and < and "). checked it out on 2 validators. doesn't make a
diff whether it's code or pre.

> readfile($filename);
> echo "</pre>\r\n";
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>

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