PHP: How do I display the contents of a textfile on my page?

Question

I have a .txt file on my web server (locally) and wish to display the contents within a page (stored on the same server) via PHP echo.

The .txt file contains a numbe

Answer 1

If you aren't looking to do anything to the stuff in the file, just display it, you can actually just include() it. include works for any file type, but of course it runs any php code it finds inside.