Reading a text file and displaying its contents

[Mike D]

So, I'm trying to get this read my text document "news.txt" and display the contents.

 

My code:

div.newscontent{
padding:0px;
margin-top:60px;
margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:400px;
margin-right:0px;
position:absolute;
width:457px;
height:330px;
text-align:center;
color:#FFFFFF;	
}

 

<div class='newscontent'>
<?PHP

$filename = "news.txt";
$arr = file($filename);
foreach($arr as $line){
    print $line . "<br/>";
}

?>
</div>

 

This is the output I get:

"; } ?> 

 

Whats wrong?

[scootstah]

file_get_contents()

[requinix]

Either your file is not named *.php or PHP is not installed/installed properly.

[scootstah]

Either your file is not named *.php or PHP is not installed/installed properly.

 

How did you come to that conclusion?

[Mike D]

Awww fuck me.. Sorry guys my bad.

It did work all the time, but the files wasnt on my xamp folder...

 

Topic solved, sorry for spam

 

E: just got one question, how I can read and display the time when the file was edited last time?

[Pikachu2000]

filemtime, I believe.

[requinix]

Either your file is not named *.php or PHP is not installed/installed properly.

 

How did you come to that conclusion?

Experience, and from having seen many of these questions in my time.

 

Look at the code as HTML markup, not PHP code: the <?php is the beginning of a tag which doesn't end until the next />. The following

"; } ?>

will be rendered as text - precisely as OP described.