Re: - Hard return in readfile
| From: | Christopher Heschong | Date: | Thu, 17 May 2001 00:42:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: - Hard return in readfile | ||
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on 5/16/01 8:38 PM, Ray Iftikhar at kryptonik_php@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have many text files stored on my server. I call them use using the
> "readfile" function. While that works great, it seems to over-write the hard
> returns. This has hurt the format and readability of my information.
>
> ie.
> text file:
> This is
> a
>
> test
>
> output:
> This is a test
>
> is there someway to get "readfile" to recognize returns in the file?
> Thanks in Advance..
> Ray
Sounds like you are displaying the text as HTML. You can either surround
the data with <pre> tags, or use the nl2br() function to convert each new
line to a <br> tag.
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/chris/