writing a txt file inside....

DisOrDeR1337

Ok, im trying to write data out of a text file which name is declared outta the db...
the name of the txt file is {$tableresult['name']}.txt
i just cant figure out how to get it to print it....
so

<?
$secResult .= <td align=\"center\"><? fopen(\"{$tableresult['name']}.txt\", \"r\" ?></td>\n"; 
?>

aaron

hartwork

maybe this works for you:

$filename = "{$tableresult['name']}.txt";
$FH = fopen( $filename, "r" );
if( !$FH )
{
// error
}
$content = fread( $FH, filesize( $filename ) );
fclose( $FH );

$secResult .= "<td align=\"center\">$content</td>\n";

greetz // bass

DisOrDeR1337

thanks!

changed it up a bit works great now!

while ($tableresult = mysql_fetch_array($tableexec, MYSQL_ASSOC)) 
{ 
$filename = "sections/dentists/{$tableresult['name']}.txt"; 
$FH = fopen($filename, "r" ); 
if( !$FH ) 
{ 
  $content = "No Data"; 
} else {
$content = fread($FH,filesize($filename)); 
fclose( $FH ); 
}



   $secResult .= "<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">$content</td>\n";

thanks again

aaron

majiclab

Although that works... I've never really liked file-handlers myself, just cause of the extra work.

I then found out that PHP had a nice little function called readfile(). If all you want to do is output a file directly to the browser, it's all you need!

http://ca.php.net/readfile

All you do is give it a file path and it prints it.

<?php
@readfile('/path/to/file.txt');
?>

The @ is just to force it not to print any error messages in case the file doesn't exist or something...

-Percy