Show content of textfile.

[Nasimov]

Hello,

I've run into a small problem. I made a site with php. By using the following code I can display the content of a textfile.

$fpFile = fopen($file2[$val], "r");
$contents = fread($fpFile, filesize($file1[$val]));
fclose($fpFile); 
echo $contents;

My problem is that I would have breaks in the text showed as I see them in my text editor and not as one textblock

Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

And what is one of the first rules a browser follows when rendering something as HTML?

User agents should collapse input white space sequences when producing output inter-word space.

Either put <pre> tags in, or send a Content-Type: header of "text/plain", or don't view the output with a web browser.

[dalecosp]

Weed's quite right, of course. Gotta adapt to the browser, 'cuz those idiots aren't going to adapt to you.

Lazy man's kluge, however, is built right in, as is somebody in PHP-land expected this to be an issue: 😉

echo nl2br($content);

[Weedpacket]

I didn't think of that; I was worried about proportional-vs-monospaced fonts.

Something else I didn't think of: the need for htmlspecialchars() because who knows what's in that text file?

[dalecosp]

Well, the author? 😃

But our POV's are probably quite different. Dalecosp's one man show vs. the technical director (read Wizard, guru, etc.) for many shows of many men (and women).