[Resolved] Loops with fopen()

[mberman]

I'm trying to figure out how to make a loop - which I've never done before, lol! I want to interpret a file, which I will have used a simple script to have written. I'm making a script for tracking "snail mail" addresses, and I'm logging entries to a flatfile db, and then I want to read the file and print a table.

I have 5 variables:

$lname     //last name
$fname    //first name
$maddr   //mailing address
$phnum  //phone number

I'm writing them to a text file, as such:

 $f = fopen('list.txt','a');
                fwrite($f, $lname . ' - ' . $fname . ' - ' . $maddr . ' - ' . $phnum . '*****');
                fclose($f);

I want to create a loop which will extract the text file back into their origional variables. Any suggestions? I'm not quite sure on how to form a good loop for this. Any help would be greatly appriciated!

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by mberman
I want to create a loop which will extract the text file back into their origional variables. Any suggestions? I'm not quite sure on how to form a good loop for this. Any help would be greatly appriciated!

Well, apart from the obvious [man]for[/man], [man]while[/man] etc., pages, there is an example of using a loop to read a text file on the [man]fread[/man] page; you could also look at [man]file[/man] and see its example, using a [man]foreach[/man].

Not being able to use loops is like not being able to count 🙂