include("text.txt"); missing "\n"

lordkadmus

I think the title is pretty elaborative! I tried to include few text files with the include function and they were included successfuly but they missed formatting i.e. the carriage return and other characters like tab, etc.
I intend to solve this issue without using file , fopen , file get contents,etc because the include function requires much less resources than the above stated.
So any bright ideas?

zabmilenko

If I am understanding you right, try:

echo '<pre>';
include("text.txt");
echo '</pre>';

echo nl2br(file_get_contents("text.txt"));

Or similar. Remember that \n means nothing to HTML. <br>, however, does.

NogDog

Or if all you want to output is the text document (i.e.: there is no HTML involved):

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
readfile('textfile.txt');

bradgrafelman

Note that if you're simply trying to display the contents of files, include() shouldn't be used... [man]readfile/man or [man]file_get_contents/man are better matches as they don't attempt to evaluate the file for PHP code to execute.

EDIT: Ah, didn't see the end of zabmilenko's post... guess he pretty much covered what I was going to say.