Delivering contents of a file.....

Anon

Hi,

I would like to read data from a file (similar to the reading file by lines topic I guess). I run a website for a little team which contains match reports. I would like to have one large file, say matchreport.txt, and have some PHP function that can read a specific match report from the file.

The link I would provide might look like <a href="matchreport.txt?lastweekend"> and that would hopefully read the file into a template I already provide.

Anybody help?

I hope I have made sense.

Phil

Anon

What you want to do is possible, but it would be much better
if you would use databases.
If your file becomes too large it will become slower ans slower and slower...

Anon

Is there any way of doing it without mySQL support?

Anon

Sure there is, it's just a lot easier to use a database.

You have to find a way of reading a file and only printing the part that you want to print.
By far the easiest way is to change the format of your textfile a little so all the parts of text you might want to print have the same number of lines.

That way you can skip to the part you want by just skipping x lines.

If this is not an option, you'll have to start putting keywords in your textfile
at the points where the various parts begin.

Then you can open the file and read it line by line untill you find the right keyword.
Then you can print the file untill you find another keyword, which tells you that a new piece of text is starting, so you can stop printing.

This works, it's just not the best solution.

Anon

Ok, so to do it using lines I could use the technique used below int he forum.

Thanks for your help!