PHP How do I display the contents of a textfile on my page

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I have a  txt file on my web server  locally  and wish to display the contents within a page  stored on the same server  via PHP echo   The  txt file contains a number that is updated by another script on another page  but for this page I just want to pull the number txt file contents from the file and echo it  to save the page having to do the calculation involved in getting the number again    How can I do this   Here s what I ve got so far        lt  php      myFile    http   renownestates com cache feedSubscribers txt        fh   fopen  myFile   r         theData   fread  fh  1       fclose  fh       echo  theData        gt

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lt  php  myfile   fopen  webdictionary txt    r   or die  Unable to open file     echo fread  myfile filesize  webdictionary txt     fclose  myfile     gt    Try this to open a file in php  Refer this   http   www w3schools com php showphp asp filename demo file fopen

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For just reading file and outputting it the best one would be readfile

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If you aren t looking to do anything to the stuff in the file  just display it  you can actually just include   it   include works for any file type  but of course it runs any php code it finds inside

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I had to use nl2br to display the carriage returns correctly and it worked for me     lt  php echo nl2br file get contents   filename php         get the contents  and echo it out    gt

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Use PHP s fopen

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Here  try this  assuming it s a small file      lt  php echo file get contents   filename php        get the contents  and echo it out    gt    Documentation is here

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I have to display files of computer code  If special characters are inside the file like less than or greater than  a simple  include  will not display them  Try    file    code ino    orig   file get contents  file    a   htmlentities  orig    echo   lt code gt    echo   lt pre gt     echo  a   echo   lt  pre gt    echo   lt  code gt

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if you just want to show the file itself   header  Content-Type  text plain    header  Content-Disposition  inline  filename  filename txt     readfile path

[php] PHP: How do I display the contents of a textfile on my page?

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