Hi Forum,

I want to include text in my page. The text sometimes might have
some format - like line breaks and I don't want to worry too much about things like: ' or " ....

how do I do that using include (or something similar)

htmlentities(include("content.txt"), ENT_QUOTES);

includes it, but if content.txt contains html code it still su%§$
Well I guess there are a lot of ways. I want to fill the plain
text from .txt files in css boxes.

Greetings

Dan

What is the question?

If you want to simply strip markup from the string (content), you may want to consider strip_tags()?

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no, I don't want to strip the tags. I want to include a plain text file (*.txt) in the body of my page. All characters (in the text file) which have HTML character entity equivalents have to be translated into these entities. In case the text file contains html code, I don't want the code/tags to be removed but
converted (e.g.: </B> converted to &lt;/B&gt; )

Thanks

Dan

This works

<?php
$content = file_get_contents('content.txt');
echo htmlentities($inhalt, ENT_QUOTES); ?>


.......BADcode.......htmlentities(include("content .txt"), ENT_QUOTES);


Tanks

D

If this is for a web page, you just need htmlspecialchars.

Because you didn't supply example content from content.txt, and what you hope to see on the web page, it's hard for me to understand what you're asking.

The problem with htmlentities/htmlspecialchars is that it will translate & into &amp;, which affects any html character entity already inside content.txt.

A decent way of maintaining the character entities in your web page is to use preg_replace, like this:

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There is no problem with & and &amp;using my code!
I don't know why.

But I have an other related question:
whenever I use letter-spacing:0.05em to format
a class of text IE doesn't execute <br /><br /> in the text.
It just makes a single <br />. Firefox works fine.

same code, letter-spacing:0.05em (plain text)

IE makes:
bla*
bli**
blupp

Firefox makes:
bla*
bli**

blupp

*line brake(<br />) ** 2line breaks (<br /> <br />

If anybody knows a tutorial about text-screen-layouts
(how to get the best readability), I would be grateful!