Log Parser.... I need guidance

mykg4orce

ok i just made a simple to write to a log.txt file now that I got the script to output everything I need I though i should make it available through an another PHP script that parses it and formats it. This is the format:

[Login] PHPSessionID=6568008f767a4d046adb427b0fb33c13, ID= 1, Username= mykg4orce, Time= Thu Aug 22 18:27:31 EDT 2002
[Logout] PHPSessionID=6568008f767a4d046adb427b0fb33c13, ID= 1, Username= mykg4orce, Time= Thu Aug 22 18:27:40 EDT 2002

What kind of routines are used to parse a file? Any old posts or tutorials?

thanks in advance!

daynah

A simple way to do it is by using explode() . You may have to play with it a bit though since you have to figure out if the line is a login/logout, the times, find patterns, etc.

Ex.

$mystring ="[Login] PHPSessionID=6568008f767a4d046adb427b0fb33c13, ID= 1, Username= mykg4orce, Time= Thu Aug 22 18:27:31 EDT 2002";

$parts = explode(" ", $mystring);

This will parse the string, putting every part that's separated by a space into an array.

Then you would use a foreach() to itterate through the array.

intenz

Let's say this is in the file log.txt ...

[Login] PHPSessionID=6568008f767a4d046adb427b0fb33c13, ID= 1, Username= mykg4orce, Time= Thu Aug 22 18:27:31 EDT 2002
[Logout] PHPSessionID=6568008f767a4d046adb427b0fb33c13, ID= 1, Username= mykg4orce, Time= Thu Aug 22 18:27:40 EDT 2002

I wrote this just for you 😉 ...

<?
$arrFile = file('log.txt');
for($i = 0; $i < count($arrFile); $i++)
{
        $arrTemp = explode(' ',$arrFile[$i]);
        for($i2 = 0; $i2 < count($arrTemp); $i2++)
        {
                $arrItems[$i][] = $arrTemp[$i2];
        }
}
?>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="center"><b>Action</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Session ID</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>ID</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Username</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Time/Date</b></td>
</tr>
<?
for($i = 0; $i < count($arrItems); $i++)
{
?>
        <tr>
        <td><?=ereg_replace('\\[|]','',$arrItems[$i][0])?></td>
        <td><?=str_replace(',','',$arrItems[$i][1])?></td>
        <td><?=str_replace(',','',$arrItems[$i][3])?></td>
        <td><?=str_replace(',','',$arrItems[$i][5])?></td>
        <td><? echo $arrItems[$i][7] . ' ' . $arrItems[$i][8] . ' ' . $arrItems[$i][9] . ' ' . $arrItems[$i][10] . ' ' . $arrItems[$i][11] . ' ' . $arrItems[12]; ?></td>
        </tr>
<?
}
?>
</table>

mykg4orce

woa! Amazing guys thanks a lot!!

Im gonna try both methods and let u know!