Preserve linebreak txt php

Question

How can I read a .txt file from my server, and preserve it\'s linebreaks? Note that the linebreaks aren\'t like this /n or something, they are more

Answer 1

The line breaks are preserved without you needing to do anything. You can easily verify this by running the code from the command line, for example with

php -r "readfile('text.txt');"

However, in HTML whitespace is collapsed by default. If you want to preserve it use the CSS white-space attribute like this:

<div style="white-space: pre"><?php readfile('text.txt'); ?></div>

Answer 2

For output? Just use nl2br

$file = file_get_contents( 'file.txt' );
echo nl2br( $file );

Also works with fopen.