reading a text file

[Dillenger]

Hi,

How can I read multiple lines from a text file?

When I use: include("shows.txt");

It takes out all formatting.

And when I use:
$file_contents = file("shows.txt");
echo $file_contents;

I just get 'Array' displayed.

Help?

[cgraz]

file() returns an array. By formatting, are you referring to new lines? Keeping in mind that file() returns an array; just loop through the array and output. use nl2br() to convert new lines to html breaks.

Cgraz

[benkillin]

and to read the contents of a file, and echo them to the browser, do this:

<?
$size = filesize("file.txt");
$fp = fopen("file.txt", "r");
flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
$content = fread($fp, $size);
flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
fclose($fp);
?>