How can PHP beginners effectively handle multi-line text stored in a file and remove line breaks?

To handle multi-line text stored in a file and remove line breaks in PHP, you can read the file line by line, remove any line breaks, and then concatenate the lines into a single string. This can be achieved using a loop to read each line from the file, using the `str_replace()` function to remove line breaks, and appending the lines to a variable. 

$file = 'example.txt';
$contents = '';

$handle = fopen($file, 'r');
if ($handle) {
    while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
        $contents .= str_replace(PHP_EOL, '', $line);
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

echo $contents;

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