Test file dump

Anon

Hi,

I am making a small sized forum (as in they put there name and thoughts and it goes in to 1 text file)

I.E

Name|thoughts
name2|thoughts

How can i get php to dump this in 1 html page
(it must read line one then dump line 2 then dump ect)
I.E

name 
Thoughts <HR>
name2 
Thoughts2 <HR>

Anon

Here's a bit of code that'll work for PHP4+...

$text = file("/path/to/your/text/file");
foreach($text as $linenum => $data) {
if($datas = explode("|",$data)) {
echo "$datas[0] 
$datas[1] ";
} else {
echo "ERROR";
}
}

If you're on PHP3, use:
while(list($linenum,$data) = each($text)) {
...
}

Hope this helps 🙂

Anon

Where do i add the while line for php 3 ??? (yes i am still running 3 due to a problem i am hainvg in 4,

Anon

You will need to use it instead of the foreach, so...

$text = file("/path/to/your/text/file");
while(list($linenum,$data) = each($text)) {
if($datas = explode("|",$data)) {
echo "$datas[0] 
$datas[1] ";
} else {
echo "ERROR";
}
}

Anon

OK THANKS SOOOOO MUCH !!! 🙂

ONe more question lets say i use that VAR "linenum"
I see thats a "0" How can i use the linenum +1
(bit like line 0 outputs in a echo as 1 and 1 +1=2 3+1=4,,, and so on,,, (just add 1)

Anon

linenum automatically incriments with the actual LINE in the file (0 is the first line)

so if you wanted to do something like 'record number', you can just use:

$linenum = $linenum+1;

Anon

Sence you seam to be the DA expert 😉
I have this other problem about writeing to line X in the text file,,

Simply i want to use the line below to able to wrtie to line X
Where X = $number, from a string fron another page (i have done all the other pages just not this write to like x"