What are common methods for reading text files in PHP and displaying their content in a textarea?

To read a text file in PHP and display its content in a textarea, you can use the file_get_contents() function to read the file and then output the content within the value attribute of the textarea HTML element. 

<?php
// Read the contents of the text file
$file_content = file_get_contents('example.txt');

// Output the content within a textarea element
echo '<textarea>' . $file_content . '</textarea>';
?>

Keywords

file_get_contents fopen fread file textarea

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