[RESOLVED] Please Help: Reading a .txt file and displaying on a web page.

Hello,

I am struggling a little, hopefully someone may be able to help me.
The code that i use is below,

<?php
$file_name = "trivia2.txt";
$fp = fopen($file_name, "r");
while($line = fgets($fp)){echo "$line <br>";}
fclose($fp);
echo $data;
?>

Although this works to a degree, its not correct.
The Output should be as follows,

[00:36] <lonewolf> morning folks 🙂

The Output is only,
[00:36] morning folks 🙂

It is omitting the <lonewolf>, is there anything i can do?

I cannot change the format, of the .txt file, it is sent as an automated process.

Thank you for any help.
John.

If you look in the html it should have the <lonewolf> in there, it's just not being printed as it is being parsed as an html tag. Try using

echo htmlspecialchars($line) . ' <br>';

instead of

echo "$line <br>";

an easy way to do it is with file_get_contents; http://uk.php.net/file_get_contents

echo file_get_contents("path/to/file.txt");

You need to use htmlspecialchars as mentioned above, and nl2br

Thank you theelectricwiz, that was the cure.