Question about reading a text file.

[jaydude]

I am new to PHP and programming in general, but I am putting together a PHP, mySQL, Apache Intranet site for my staffing company. I have put together a bunch of free scripts for most of it, but there is a couple things lacking. I want to upload resumes from the local client to the web site and have the PHP read the files and put the data in the necessary fields. Such as: The first line will be the NAME and PHP wll read it and put it into the NAME field in mySQL. What is the best way to do this? I was reading about the readfile() function in the manual. Is that the best way?

Thank you for any help that you can give.😃

[saronoff]

All the functions for file manipulation can be found at php.net. Check it out. You'll be able to find exactly what you need.

[kidders]

If the uploaded files aren't going to be too big, I would have used file_get_contents(...) to turn the whole thing into one big string.

fgets(...) is another option that reads lines of text.