FGETS and new lines

[binarylime]

All,

I am using the fgets routine to retrieve text from a file I wrote with VI and dumping into an HTML form.

The basic problem is that (for whatever reason), when I echo out the results, the damn text shows up as one long line without the proper new lines.

SO, using FGETS, how can I look for newlines (carriage returns) to issue a <BR> in my html source?

Example :

textfile.txt
This is what is in my text file.
- It has two lines
- No, wait - it has three lines.

When I execute my HTML page to retreive the data from my testfile.txt, it shows up as :

This is what is in my text file.- It has two lines-No, wait - it has three lines.

-- Cobain was murdered.

[drew010]

if you have something like:

while(!feof($fp)) {
$content .= fgets($fp,4096);
}
you can do

echo nl2br($content);

that will insert the \n as breaks... if you were to view the source code of your current output, there would be newlines between the lines in the file, but in html code a newline doesnt reflect a line break. it is just a newline in the source file.
nl2br will convert \n's to <br />

hope it helps.

[binarylime]

Guess what -- you rock. Thanks for the snippet of code.

I was dreading 22 lines of code.🙂