PHP to update web content from txt file!!

[Learster]

hi...
Hope someone can help with a query that i have..
I have no previous knowledge of PHP.....
I have stored data in text file (tab delimited, comma delimited etc.) and want to use PHP to read contents of the file so that the contents are inserted into my web-page...
All replies appreciated..
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[rIkLuNd]

this is a very simple example! your textfile should look like this:

value1||value2||value3||value4

and so on... make sure the values are separated by ||

<?php

// load file
$load = file("filename.txt");
// get number of lines
$lines = count($load);

// loop to assign new names
for($i = 0; $i < $lines; $i++)
{
   $data = explode('||',$load[$i]);
   $array[$i]['key1'] = $data[0];
   $array[$i]['key2'] = $data[1];
   $array[$i]['key3'] = $data[2];
   $array[$i]['key4'] = $data[3];
}

?>

then all the data from the textfile is stored in the $array array... 😛

[rIkLuNd]

thought of another thing! you can also do like this if you want the rows to just contain one value each:

let's say that you want to have some config in the text file... then make it look like this:

bgcolor=#000000
title=Welcome to my site!

etc etc
then do like this do get to it!

<?php

// load the data
$load = file("config.txt");
// count it
$lines = count($load);

// let's loop through the data, and add it to
// the $config array
for($i = 0; $i < $lines; $i++)
{
   // explode it!
   $data = explode('=',$load[$i]);

   // add to the array
   $config[$data[0]] = $data[1];
}

// after this, you can access for example bgcolor like this:
// echo $config['bgcolor'];
// let's look at the result!

echo "<pre>\n";
print_r($config);
echo "</pre>\n";

?>