Echo text file line by line HTML-PHP

Question

I have searched the site but none of the answers i found has worked so far so i'm seeking additional help.

I want to print the lines from a text file line by line (one under the other) but i do not wish to use iframe here is my code so far:

HTML-PHP

<td>
<?php                                       
$handle = fopen("textfilelocation/$text.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
echo $line;
}                                       
fclose($handle);
} 
else {
echo "Error accessing Tracking Data";
} 
?>
</td>

Text file

Hello,World 
March 3, 2018, 3:00am
Enjoy, life

Ouput

Hello,World March 3, 2018, 3:00am Enjoy, life

What i want is

Hello,World 
March 3, 2018, 3:00am
Enjoy, life

Possible duplicate of [Preserve and display text exactly how it is typed and submitted](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21045667/preserve-and-display-text-exactly-how-it-is-typed-and-submitted) — Richard, Mar 21 '18 at 17:39
So you need to add a html line break? `
`? `echo $line . "
\n";` — Andreas, Mar 21 '18 at 17:40
Possible duplicate of [php, wordpress add line break with in two echo statements](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45458297/php-wordpress-add-line-break-with-in-two-echo-statements) — Andreas, Mar 21 '18 at 17:44

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '18 at 17:52

2

If you're reading the file a line at a time because you think you need to do that to display each line on a new line in the browser, it isn't necessary. You just need to convert the line breaks to <br> tags.

<td>
    <?= nl2br(file_get_contents('example.txt')) ?>
</td>

Otherwise, if you are doing something else to $line before you output it, just append a <br>.

echo "$line<br>";

answered Mar 21 '18 at 17:52

Don't Panic

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Awesome thank you very much that works perfectly! i upvoted you but its not showing, not sure how to build my rep yet – Time Mar 21 '18 at 18:02
@Time no worries. Re: rep, you might want to read this: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252149/how-does-a-new-user-get-started-on-stack-overflow – Don't Panic Mar 21 '18 at 19:11

Echo text file line by line HTML-PHP

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