PHP and Text Files

[phpdeano]

I need to be able to display the contents a text file in a PHP page, with each value from the text file a separate text box.

I have to use a text file as I do not have MySQL access with this hosting company.

Currently I have:

$filename = "data1.txt";
$fd = fopen($filename, "r") or

die("Cant open file");

$fstring = fread($fd, filesize($filename));

$lines = file("$filename");

foreach ($lines as $line)

if ($line) 
{
  $line = str_replace('"', '', $line);

		//echo $line;
  $fields = explode(",", $line); 

  $ref= $fields['0'];
  $description= $fields['1'];

}

I believe this gives me an array with the values.

What I need to do is know how to display each value in a separate text box.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[sp0rk]

First of all, your code can be simplified a lot by using file() and list().

$filecontents = file("data1.txt");
foreach($filecontents as $value) {
list($ref,$description) = explode(",", $value);
// create html here
}

You might want to use trim($value) in the foreach to get rid of whitespace.
Read up on what html you need on www.w3.org or something... I'm not much of an html-guru, I just do logic. =)

[Anon]

If you're sure you have the values safe in an array then you just need to print the textboxes yourself with their startings values set as the array ones.

So after you've exploded your string into the array...

print ("<input type=text name=something value=$array[key]>");

If you manually output your form fields in this way (i.e. within the php tags) you can directly use the values you've derived since it's all in the same script.

I should perhaps point out I'm quite new to PHP so if I've got this wrong I apologise, but I think it's right.

Cheers.

[sp0rk]

That's perfectly fine code. Stick it in a foreach-loop and it's done.

But PHPDeano seems to have some data that looks like this:
something1,somethingelse1
something2,somethingelse2
something3,somethingelse3

What he/she wants to do with the data that's returned after the explode is anyones guess unless more details are provided.

[casbboy]

Ok, I have a problem with a text file as well.
I have a text file that has the following coding (it actually is also in a javascript that runs menus)

arrItems1[0] = "Acura";
arrItemsGrp1[0] = 1;
arrItems1[1] = "Alpha Romeo";
arrItemsGrp1[1] = 1;
arrItems1[2] = "American Motors";
arrItemsGrp1[2] = 1;
arrItems1[3] = "Aston Martin";
arrItemsGrp1[3] = 1;
arrItems1[4] = "Audi";

Ok, everything is given a different number by [4] for the javascript. Now lets say I want a user to search for audi in the menu which actually POSTS '4'. Is there a way for php to go in and find '4' and then echo AUDI?

Thanks
Ryan

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by casbboy
arrItems1[0] = "Acura";
arrItemsGrp1[0] = 1;
arrItems1[1] = "Alpha Romeo";
arrItemsGrp1[1] = 1;
arrItems1[2] = "American Motors";
arrItemsGrp1[2] = 1;
arrItems1[3] = "Aston Martin";
arrItemsGrp1[3] = 1;
arrItems1[4] = "Audi";

If the format's as simple as that, with nothing else that would not be PHP, you could read the file into a string, use str_replace() to put a '$' in front of every "arrItems", and then eval() the resulting string. That will give you arrays $arrItems1 and $arrItemsGrp1 that would work exactly as you'd expect.

[casbboy]

I'm sorry, can you explain a little bit more. Confused.

Also, I'm more concerned with the number in the brackets.. I want to be able to search the number '4' and have it output Audi

Thakns
Ryan