Returning text from a file to the html

Anon

Hello,

I'm completly new with php and never used it. Now i know the server my site runs on can run php scripts.
I want to know if it's possible to return text from a text file into a html.

Could someone please explain me how to do this?

Adriaan Mol
http://www.mollie.nl/

Anon

<?
$text_array = file("yourfile.txt");
$text_string = implode("",$text_array);
echo $text_string;
?>

You're welcome.

---John Holmes...

Anon

Ah. Thanks. But how does the server knows that there starts the php code?

I want to put this into a html file.

Little example:

$thereturnedtext<br>
blabla

Cheers,
Adriaan Mol

Anon

But how does the server knows that there starts the php code?

You haven't even started, then. Yes, the manual is not a complete tutorial, and some of the stuff isn't documented all that wall (more particularly, isn't provided with much in the way of examples) but "Getting Started/Intruduction" in the manual does indeed provide a very clear example. I strongly advise you to read through the entire "Getting Started" section again.

In summary, you embed your php code inside the following marks:

<?php
...
?>

Anon

Ah. Yes I understand. Thanks for the great help.
This is what I did.

<head>
<title>Return file to HTML</title>
</head>
<body>
The file will appear below:<br>

   <?php $text_array = file("testfile.txt");
   $text_string = implode("",$text_array);
   echo $text_string;
   ?>

</body>

Maybe I did something realy wrong I don't know, but it does not work.
Could somebody correct me?

Anon

but it does not work

Could you be a bit more specific? What did display in the browser? Anything, something, or nothing? Even if nothing displayed, do a View Source and see what that looks like, and report back.

Also, what is in the text file that you expect to display?

Anon

Like i used in my example the name of the text file is "testfile.txt" (file("testfile.txt")).

Hmm.. it doesn't show anyting, probably because the script doesn't run (well, I'm sure of that, because it's still in the html source)

I'm sorry I wasn't specific enough, here you can find the test: http://wap1.use.utwente.nl/~mollie/returntest.html

I hope I gave you enough information.

Lotsa thanks,
Adriaan Mol
http://www.mollie.nl/

Anon

Umm...name it returntest.php and see if it works...

---John Holmes...

Anon

Ok, now it runs the php for sure, but still does not return the text that's in the file.

It returned:
Array

later,

Anon

Okay...now that we've solved the hard part and know that you have to name PHP files with a .php extension....let's move on to the even harder parts: How to cut and paste. Obviously you didn't cut and paste my code correctly because you left a line out. go back to the second message and make sure you have the code that I said. Your .txt file has to be in the same directory as your .php file, also.

Later...

---John Holmes...

Anon

Got to learn copy/paste fast!