Output text file with line breaks in PHP

I’m trying to open a text file and output its contents with the code below. The text file includes line breaks but when I echo the file its unformatted. How do I fix this?

Thanks.

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

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

        $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);

        echo $pageText;


</body>

</html>

JavaScript
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<html>​<head>​</head>​<body>​        $fh = fopen("filename.txt", 'r');​        $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);​        echo $pageText;​​</body>​</html>​

Answer

To convert the plain text line breaks to html line breaks, try this:

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

    $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);

    echo nl2br($pageText);

JavaScript
 
    $fh = fopen("filename.txt", 'r');​    $pageText = fread($fh, 25000);​    echo nl2br($pageText);​

Note the nl2br function wrapping the text.

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