[Resolved] reading and displaying text file contents

[onairric]

Im using this code to read a text file and display its contents in a php page. It's working but what happens is that it ignores the newlines and displays the contents of the text file in a continuous format.

 // Read the text file
$content = file_get_contents("public_html/text/content.txt");

// Print the contents of the text file
print '<p>' . trim ($content) . '</p>';

I want to be able to display this text file the way it is.

Name: Eric John
Age: 20
Gender:Male

Name: Kurt Hank
Age: 21
Gender: Male

Please help.... 🙂

[tommynanda]

This is one of the FAQs suggested by LordShryku in Echo Longue 😃

anyway "\n" = newline for PHP not for HTML
replace this with <br>

// Read the text file
$content = file_get_contents("public_html/text/content.txt");

// Replace PHP new line with HTML <br>
$content = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $content);

// Print the contents of the text file
print '<p>' . trim ($content) . '</p>';

Have Fun!
TommYNandA

[dnast]

Originally posted by tommynanda
// Replace PHP new line with HTML <br>
$content = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $content);

Or use

$content = nl2br($content);