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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:

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<?php

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

?>

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:

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<?php

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

?>

[[Unknown]]

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

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<?php

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

?>

I would personally do it like this...

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

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

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

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[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
what would be the BEST php book?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

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