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andrea:
How to include a text file such that the line separators contained in the text file are parsed?

Example:

http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt

There you see the text has some line delimiters. Now I include this text in a php file with this simple code:


--- Code: ---<?php

include("http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt");

?>
--- End code ---

The output of this php file you see here:
http://hubacher.net/yabbse-mod-tos.php

Alle line delimiters, feeders etc. are gone. What am I doing wrong? I did already try to store the text file on my local server disk and include from there, this did not help.

Zef Hemel:
Beside the fact that it's very inefficient to use inlcude with URLs, you should always use paths if possible. This might work:

--- Code: ---<?php

echo nl2br(implode(&#39;&#39;, file(&#39;http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt&#39;)));

?>
--- End code ---

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--- Quote from: Zef Hemel on August 17, 2003, 10:57:52 AM ---Beside the fact that it's very inefficient to use inlcude with URLs, you should always use paths if possible. This might work:

--- Code: ---<?php

echo nl2br(implode(&#39;&#39;, file(&#39;http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt&#39;)));

?>
--- End code ---

--- End quote ---

I would personally do it like this...


--- Code: ---echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(implode('', file('http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt'))));
--- End code ---

Or, for versions of PHP above 4.3.x...


--- Code: ---echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents('http://www.yabbse.org/community/attachments/YaBB_SE_modifications_TOS.txt')));
--- End code ---

-[Unknown]

Aquilo:
I guess these php books might come in handy I never knew about the nl2br() function :(

I would have done the fopen, while loop, and str_replace thing :P
what would be the BEST php book?

Spaceman-Spiff:
Suggested Books to learn Php & MySQL

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