Edit .txt file on server

[mburt]

Thanks alot djr33! I got this to work *sigh of relief. Again, thanks alot

[mburt]

Tiny problem: The following won't display the contents of the .txt file:

<?php
$fc = file("file.txt");
echo $fc;
?>

It returns the value "Array" for some reason...

[Twey]

That's because it's an array of all the lines in the file. See the documentation for file(). You probably mean file_get_contents().

[mburt]

file_get_contents() doesn't put in escape characters

I have \n written in the file to make a line, and it all appears as one string. How can this be fixed?

[mburt]

Okay. (sorry for all the posting ) But it's done; it is a fully-functional comments page without a MySql database.
http://mburt.mb.funpic.org/contact.php
Fire at will

[Twey]

I have \n written in the file to make a line, and it all appears as one string. How can this be fixed?

That's not what's happening at all. Remember, you're outputting HTML. In HTML, linebreaks are treated as a space.

[mburt]

Yeah, I forgot. Kind of a stupid mistake. I changed my mind and made the file a .htm document so html tags could be valid in my code, but I used strip_tags() to make sure the user couldn't use html.

[the-disturbed]

link's broken lol

[mburt]

Okay... here's the new link :

http://mburt.mb.funpic.org/guestbook.php