simple way to display data in a .txt file on a webpage?

Question

Working on a project, one of the webpages will display a list of people (specifically, a list of people from a graduation class that haven\'t been located yet). Instead of m

Answer 1

That's the code I use:

<?php   
    $path="C:/foopath/";
    $file="foofile.txt";

    //read file contents
    $content="
        <h2>$file</h2>
            <code>
                <pre>".htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents("$path/$file"))."</pre>
            </code>";

    //display
    echo $content;
?>

Keep in mind that if the user can modify $path or $file (for example via $_GET or $_POST), he/she will be able to see all your source files (danger!)

Answer 2

Easy way:

• Rename missingmen.txt to missingmen.html.
• Add a single line to the top of missingmen.html:
  <link href="txtstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
• Create a file called txtstyle.css, and add to it a line like this:
  html, body {font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif}

Answer 3

In more recent browsers code like below may be enough.

<object data="https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/iso_8859-1.txt" width="300" height="200">
Not supported
</object>

Answer 4

You can add it as script file. save the txt file with js suffix

in the head section add

<script src="fileName.js"></script>

Answer 5

You cannot style a text file, it must be HTML

Answer 6

If you just want to throw the contents of the file onto the screen you can try using PHP.

<?php
    $myfilename = "mytextfile.txt";
    if(file_exists($myfilename)){
      echo file_get_contents($myfilename);
    }
?>

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