Reading multiple lines from a text file

[gravereaper]

$myFile = "testFile.txt";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";fwrite($fh, $stringData);$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";fwrite($fh, $stringData);fclose($fh);

This code should simply write the two names on different lines but instead of a line break its displaying a character normally used a symbol for line break. How can i read this txt file so that character is considered as an actual line break and the two names appear on different lines?

[jesh]

You might try "\n\r" as the new line code.

[gravereaper]

Its still displaying the same results

[justsomeguy]

Try using this to open it:$fh = fopen($myFile, 'wb') or die("can't open file");

[gravereaper]

Still the same thing, one thing i'll like to add is that whenever i try to copy and paste that text with those symbols here, the text automatically appears on separate lines. Any hints on how to read it?

[justsomeguy]

What are you looking at the text file in? Are you opening it in Notepad, or something else? If you open it in more then one program, do they all show the same thing? You should be able to attach the text file as an attachment to your post.

[gravereaper]

Ok those symbols were only appearing in NOTEPAD, the text was on separate lines when i tried opening .txt file in wordpad.

[vijay]

Hi,Plz try with like this: this will probably work$data="Content"."\n";Regards,Vijay

[gravereaper]

Its writing in the .txt file fine now, how can i read all the contents of the file from the first to the last line?

[aspnetguy]

http://www.free2code.net/plugins/articles/read.php?id=84

[justsomeguy]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

[gravereaper]

I'am putting the codes right but there seems to be a problem.. i'am using the following codes to write to the file:

<?php$myFile = "testfile.txt";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');$datastring = "text 1\n";fwrite($fh,$datastring);$datastring = "text2\n";fwrite($fh,$datastring);fclose($fh);?>

and the following to read it:

<?php$myFile = "testfile.txt";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');$theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));fclose($fh);echo $theData;?>

But instead of separate lines, its displaying the file contents in the same line, thats what i was trying to figure out..

[jlhaslip]

replace \n with \r\n when you write to the file.

[gravereaper]

Ok now its appearing in every Text Reader but still when i try to read it through the above script its showing everything in a horizontal lineContents of the actual .txt file:text 1text2When read in the browser:text 1 text2

[jlhaslip]

The \r\n is for the text file only. Add a <br /> tag to the data in the file or in your echo statements to have the Browser output behave as you wish. The read function you are using reads the entire file contents. Maybe switch to a function which reads single lines at a time and add the br tag on each loop as you read / write the file contents. Check at the php site for the different functions available. fgets() looks promissing. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php

[justsomeguy]

You can just use the nl2br function to add a <br /> either before or after every newline in the file.echo nl2br(file_get_contents("file.txt"));