Read in text file line by line php - newline not being detected
This doesn't work for you?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.auto-detect-line-endings
What's wrong with file()?
foreach (file($fileName) as $name) { echo('<tr><td align="center">'.$name.'</td></tr>');}
From the man page of fgets:
Note: If PHP is not properly recognizing the line endings when reading files either on or created by a Macintosh computer, enabling the auto_detect_line_endings run-time configuration option may help resolve the problem.
Also, have you tried the file function? It returns an array; each element in the array corresponds to a line in the file.
Edit: if you don't have access to the php.ini, what web server are you using? In Apache, you can change PHP settings using a .htaccess file. There is also the ini_set function which allows changing settings at runtime.