newbie help/parse text file

Anon

I'm a complete new-comer to php, and in fact to any OOP environment (I'm an old C and Pascal coder.)

I need to create something quite basic on php (v3, I believe) on a customer's site. What I need to be able to do is open a comma delimited file from the web server's docroot and while ! EOF, parse it for tokens in a certain field, then read the rest of the line and format it into html.

I don't need a database or anthing fancy at this point, nor really anything more than what I've outlined above.

Is this something that PHP can do w/o too much trouble? Can anyone point me to info, samples, etc????

Unfortunately like so many things,this needs to be done in a hurry ... I glanced at the command reference for php and it looked pretty daunting (complete though).

TIA!

Anon

Here's a start:

$file="somefile.txt";
$fp=fopen($file,"r");
$body=fread($file,filesize($file));
$lines=split("\n",$body);
for ($i=0;$i<count($lines);$i++){
do something with each line here
}

Anon

Great!

Thanks a BIG help, actually. I'll try to get this figured out yet.

(FYI, this is in php3, free & unsupported on my Verio account.)

So let me ask a further question. How di I mix HTML and php3 code?

Say in this process I want each field from each line in the file to be in a table cell, with each line starting a new row ...

Do I open the table before the php3 code, then echo (print? something?) the HTML tags from within the php3 function?

Anon

What about fgetcsv?

I just found out about this ...

Is this the way to go?

Anon

Wow, I hadn't even used that before. I just had a friend working with the same problem, so I'll tell him about it.

You know what would be nice? an fgetereg() / fgeteregi() function...

$line[]=fgeteregi($fp,$ereg,$size);

Anon

I tried using the code above, but couldn't get it to work. After looking at some code at php.net I came up witht the follwing that did work:

$filename="/home/address/text.txt"; 
$fd=fopen($filename,"r"); 
$body=fread($fd,filesize($filename)); 
$lines=split("\n",$body); 
for ($i=0;$i<count($lines);$i++){ 

  $DoSomethingWith = $lines[$i];
}

fclose($fd)