Reading a File with Tags

[netfrugal]

This is actually not too hard to do. Except that the tags are stripped out by the browser.

In my file I have this text:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin email.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/doc
ServerName something.com
ErrorLog logs/here
CustomLog logs/here
</VirtualHost>

$myFile = "file.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r'); // open file to read it
$theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);

echo nl2br($theData);

When I open it in a browser, this is what I see:

 ServerAdmin email.com
 DocumentRoot /path/to/doc
 ServerName something.com
 ErrorLog logs/here
 CustomLog logs/here

Obviously the browser is taking out the top and bottom, since they are formatted as tags.
How do I read a file that has tags in it, without stripping the tags out, or allowing the browser to translate the tags into some browser view?

thanks!

[Weedpacket]

Have you looked at the html source? Considered [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]?

[netfrugal]

yes, I have tried that too.

It works, but it takes out the breaks, giving me a 1-line string:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> ServerAdmin email.com DocumentRoot /path/to/doc ServerName something.com ErrorLog logs/here CustomLog logs/here </VirtualHost>
</VirtualHost>

However, if I place it inside the nl2br() function, I get the desired results:

nl2br(htmlspecialchars($theData));

thanks !