Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/12/06 09:21

"Dalibor" <dalibor_gv@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:52:34 +0100, 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?
>
> This worked:
> <textarea>
> <?php
> $filename = "../msd/news.txt";
> $handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
> $content = fread ($handle, filesize($filename));
> fclose($handle);
> echo ($content);
> ?>

that could have all been done with readfile(). another cool function is
file_get_contents() - all of them I think work with URLs also.

> </textarea>
>
> Thanks everyone for helping!
> --
> .:Dalibor:.

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