Reading and outputting files...

[wibble999]

Hiya

I've got a file containing basic html to be output, eg:

---

"example.txt"
<p><b>Hello world</b></p>

<p>PHP rules - if only I was better at it</p>

A web page then needs to read this file, CHANGE it a little (eg. <span class='xxx'> is inserted after every <b> statement), and then output the result to the screen / page.

I'm currently using readfile("example.txt") , but the minor changes are essential for formatting purposes.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
...Simon.

[bubblenut]

If the plain text files aren't too big you could read them into memory, make the changes and then output them as follows.

<?php
$readfile="./example.txt";
if(!$fp=fopen($readfile),"r") {
  echo("There was an error opening a file handle to ".$readfile);
  exit();
}
$buffer="";
while(!feof($fp)) {
  $buffer .= fgets($fp, 1024);
}
?>

The contents of example.txt is now in $buffer;
HTH
Rob

[wibble999]

Many thanks - you gave me an idea!

I'm now reading the file into a string as you suggested, using the "str_replace" function to make the necessary changes, and then ouputting the string to the screen with "echo"

Works great - thanks!

...Simon.