PHP Use include with whitespaces?

Question

I am including a textfile from a PHP file, using:

include("thesocalledfile.txt");

But when it prints out, it doesn't happear to show the whitespaces, \\n, etc.

Answer 1

When you are displaying text to a browser, you will need to append HTML formatting to it, or stick it inside a set of <pre></pre> tags.

The simplest way to add in line breaks and so forth in php is nl2br .

<?php
echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");
?>

Answer 2

If you have plain text line breaks you can try

 $fh = fopen("filename.txt", 'r');

    $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);

    echo nl2br($pageText);

you need the nl2br to wrap the text

You can also set up <pre></pre> tags and output the file inside them.