Question

I’m using this code now to display a text file on a php/html page.

<?php
foreach (glob("example.txt") as $filename) {
    echo nl2br(file_get_contents($filename));
    echo "<br></br>";
}
?>

I’m looking for a way to display the example.txt file from another server with URI.

Something like this: http://address.com/dir/example.txt

Is there a simple way to do this?

(I would use an iframe but it’s not possible to style the text without Java or JQuery).

Answer 1

You code is totally wrong

 foreach (glob("example.txt") as $filename) {
                    ^------------------------- searching for a file 

They can only one example.txt file in a folder at a time except you want to get all text files should should be like this in the first place

 foreach (glob("*.txt") as $filename) { 

If that is not the case the code would work for both remote and local file

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", "on");
$fileName = "example.txt" ; // or http://oursite.com/example.txt 
echo nl2br(file_get_contents($fileName));
echo "<br></br>";