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[Anon]

Hey Guys,

I have this text file let's say its contents are

Name
Taylor Scott
Email
[e-mail]

How do I pick out the line after Name assign it to a variable then do the same for Email? What I am doing as having a file uploaded, searching it, and adding all that info to the database. I can handle the rest I'm just stuck here.

Thanks,

Taylor

[techek]

You would be better off with the data joined on one line like this :

Taylor Scott|[e-mail]
Jacob Hansen|[e-mail]

That way you could use code like this :

<?php
$data = file($datafile);
while(list($index, $value) = each($data)) {
list($name, $email) = explode('|', $value);
echo "Name : $name - Email : $email<br>\n";
}
?>

Hope it can give you an idea - even if it means that you have to change your datafile.

[Anon]

Techek,

Thanks for the help but changing my data file completly defeats my purpose. Is there a way to do it off a new line?

[techek]

Suppose your datafile is in this exact format every time I'd do this :

Name
Taylor Scott
Email
[e-mail]
Name
Jacob Hansen
Email
my@address

<?php
$data = file(<name_of_datafile>);
$element = 0;
for ($row = 0; $row<count($data); $row++) {
$name = $data[$row+1];
$email = $data[$row+3];
$your_data[$email] = $name;
$row = $row + 3;
}

while(list($index, $value) = each($your_data)) {
echo "$index - $value<br>\n";
}
?>

Try it out - I haven't done it myself, but as far as I can "parse" on my own, I think it'll work. If not, I'll try to test it when I get the time.