Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/12/06 09:26

"Jim Michaels" <jmichae3@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "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.


I forgot one thing. in a textarea, using
echo htmlentities(file_get_contents("filepath"))
is probably a good idea, if you intend to display the content on a web page
or sending HTML email, which is often the case. if you are sending plain
text email, readfile() should be just fine.

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