Read a text file in PHP

Using this script, a text file can be read and can be displayed on a php page

<?php
    $filename = "dak.txt";
    	// set file to read

    $fh = fopen ($filename, "r") or die("Could not open file");
	// open file
    while (!feof($fh)) {
	// read file
        $data = fgets($fh);
        echo "<br>".$data;
    }
	// close file
    fclose ($fh);

    echo "<p>Contents of file ".$filename." are are shown above ";
?>

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