Any possible way.......

[Anon]

This is probably an easy question, either it can or can't be done. I've searched the entire site, read the manual (fopen, include, etc) and searched the web.

Is there any possible way to convert a text file complete with lines (not jumbled up) from a remote site onto a webpage? I've tried using fopen and fread, fopen returns a "Resource id" and fread returns a blank page.

I'm wanting to include, as an example, the text at this location into a php file:
ftp://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/data/text/WUUS54/KLCH.TXT

Also would there be any possible way of breaking that file up into sections and putting say for instance the date into a MySQL database?

[theslinky]

Hi,

here is a code that will read this file and print out all the dates in it. You can go ahead and make it do whatever you want instead of printing the dates. I assume you are trying to format this TXT into a nice weather data displayed on your page, right? So, the array $lines holds the info in the file line by line.

<?php

$url = "ftp://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/data/text/WUUS54/KLCH.TXT";

$fd = fopen($url, "r");
//I'm assuming the file won't be bigger than 10kb
$contents = fread($fd, 10240);
fclose($fd);

// put into array by lines
$lines = explode("\n", $contents);

print sizeof($lines) . "<BR>";
//look for dates
for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($lines); $i++) {
$resarray = "";
if(preg_match("/([0-9]{3,4}) (AM|PM) ([A-Z]{3})/", $lines[$i], $resarray)) {
print $resarray[0] . "<br>";
}
}

//print $contents;

?>

If you need help in formatting the contents (as held by $contents) a certain way, describe in detail how you want to display it, and I'll write you a code.

hope this gets you a start!
-sridhar

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fopen lets you load files from remote servers,
and once you have the data you can do whetever you want, split it up, put it in a database, anything really.

[Anon]

Thanks, That should come in handy when I decide to add dates into a MySQL database for a later query.

I found code that was submitted to 1phpstreet yesterda that enables you to format the text files so they won't be jumbled up.

<?php
$filename = "ftp://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/data/text/FXUS63/KSGF.TXT";//File Name to read Here
{
$inline = file($filename);//Assigns all the content from the file to the var $info
$number_of_lines = count($inline);//returns the number of items in the array
for($x = 0; $x <= $number_of_lines ;$x++){//Loop to go through each line of input from the file
echo "$inline[$x] <br>";//Display each line to the browser
}
}

?>

I added your code to the end of it on the bottom, You can check both of them out here:

http://www.wxlaunch.com

Thanks again!