Including text from a file

[teddy777]

hi i'm trying to include text from a file on my webpage, i want to continually change this file so I can't just write it in html. This is the code I've tried so far, it didn't work  

 
<?php $file = file_get_contents(filename.txt); 
  echo $file;
?>

[trq]

<?php $file = file_get_contents('filename.txt'); 
  echo $file;
?>

[teddy777]

sorry that was an error copying the code to here, I did include quatation marks in my real code

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You should be directly copy/pasting code so that people are not wasting time trying to fix nonexistent problems with it.

 

You should also be learning php, developing php code, and debugging php code on a system with error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON so that you get immediate feedback of problems php finds, like a file name in a function call that should be enclosed in quotes.

[teddy777]

I put my code through a syntax checker(everything OK), but due to it being in my html code if the code went wrong and I included your code to report errors I still can't see them.