need help with array

[rebecca]

Hello,

I'm new to php and so am hoping that you can help. What I want to do is read from a config file, put the contents into an array, trim the whitespace. I then want to iterate through the array by line and split it into sets of three variables along a '|' symbol.

So far I have the following code but I think I'm mixing php and perl and not coming up with anything usable . . .

function read_order_config (){
$contents = fopen ($ORDER_CONFIG, "r") or die ("Couldn't open file");
$pricetable = fread ($contents, filesize ($ORDER_CONFIG));
fclose($contents);

$trimmed  = chop($line);

foreach $trimmed($pricetable){
  ($lev, $var, $value) = split ("|", "$line")
}

}

Are fopen and fread the right way of going about this?

I will much appreciate anyone's help with this. Thanks, Rebecca

[amcgrath]

I'm not sure if this will help, but whenever I've had to do anything along these lines, I always used the file($data) function, whihc puts each line of the 4data file into an array index and then work it from there.

[jjoske]

try:
$content=file($ORDER_CONFIG);
foreach($contact AS $line) {
$variables=explode("|",$line)
$lev=$variables[0];
$var=$variables[1];
$value=$variables[2];
}

haven't tested it bu it should work.