Reading File with Line Breaks?

[locell]

I'm reading from a file that has line breaks as in spacing items like this:

Item1
ITEM2

ITEM3

But it comes out like Item1ITEM2 ITEM3

Here is the Code:

if (!$file_handle = fopen($file,"r")) { echo "Cannot open file."; }
if (!$file_contents = fread($file_handle, filesize($file))) { echo "Cannot retrieve file contents."; }
else { echo "$file_contents\r\n"; }
fclose($file_handle);

If some one could help me I'd appreciate it a LOT!!!

THANK YOU

[jot-87]

Does it come out like Item1ITEM2ITEM3 in the browser or in the source? Newlines in the source won't show in the browser, you need to change them into <br> tags. You can do this with the nl2br() function. Simply do:

$string_with_newlines = "line1\nline2\nline3";
echo nl2br($string_with_newlines);

Output: line1<br>
line2<br>
line3

I think that might solve your problem.