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 just want to show the file itself:

header('Content-Type: text/plain');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="filename.txt"');
readfile(path);