line breaks, paragraph prob!!

mdesignone

Hey Guys.

I am displaying a txt file into my news.php page.

The problem is when it reads the txt file on my php page it displays the text without any paragraphs or line breaks.
just a big slab of text.

Im new to php and was wondering if any one can point me in the right direction, to solve this problem.

this is my code so far:

<?php
readfile ("whatever.txt"); //the name of my text file
?>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

thanks,
Shaun

nemonoman

in HTML you must add a

<BR>

to get a line break to display. Just a chr(13) won't display as a line break. Also multiple spaces don't display -- only one.

You might try adding a <PRE> before your txt file. don't forget to add a </PRE> after it's done. That should display the text with breaks.

maestrosdelweb

Try the nl2br($string) function.

nemonoman

Thanks, maestro. Hadn't seen that before. The discussion of the function at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

is worth reading, particularly if you are working w. text files on multiple platforms.

And I never would have found it except for your suggestion! Thanks!

Ulujain

Hehehe, nl2br() is my friend. On my site I had a bunch of copied and pasted plain text files inserted into Postnuke's reviews mod, naively thinking it'd recognize CR/LF's...oh no.

After much agonizing, I discovered the nl2br() function while going through someone's code.

I can vouch it works wonders.