Read and print with \t in PHP

Question

I'm opening a TXT file in PHP and want to read the lines of it one by one.

I'm using fgets() .

The problem is that the output is ignoring the tabulations ("\t") in the original file, which is not what I want.

There is some way to force PHP to don't ignore 'em?

My code:

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "<br> " . $string;
}

Answer 1

Your (probably everyone's for that matter) web browser is ignoring the tabs.

Try this:

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
echo '<pre>'
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "\n" . htmlentities($string);
}
echo '</pre>';

or

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
echo '<textarea>'
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "\n" . htmlentities($string);
}
echo '</textarea>';