Data from a txt file

[wesohaire]

I have "shopping cart" files (txt) that hold item name, item quantity, and item pricing. They are delimitted by a ":". Looks like this:

apples:3:3
oranges:2:1
grapes:1:2
pineapples:5:1

I tried a for loop to explode each line:

for ($j = 0; $j < $cartLength; $j++) {
    	$element = explode(":", $cartContents[$j]);
		echo $element[$j];
	 }

but that didn't work. Any suggestions?

[planetsim]

Your close but not quite

for ($j = 0; $j < $cartLength; $j++) {
   $element = explode(":",$cartContents[$j]);
   echo $element['0']." ".$element['1']." ".$element['2'];
}

That will print them all out with spaces if you just want the name then just use the $element['0']