What are some best practices for reading and displaying file contents in a dropdown menu using PHP?

To read and display file contents in a dropdown menu using PHP, you can first read the contents of the file into an array, then iterate through the array to populate the dropdown menu options. 

<?php
// Read file contents into an array
$file_contents = file('file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);

// Create dropdown menu
echo '<select>';
foreach ($file_contents as $line) {
    echo '<option value="' . $line . '">' . $line . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';
?>

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