Including a text file

wbsmith89

Hi,

I'm creating a "Now Playing in iTunes" line for my website: it uses a remote text file to supply the song and artist name; however, the text file contains many lines of text and I'm only interested in displaying the first line of the file. How do I include only the first line of a text file in php?

Thanks in advance,
William

planetsim

$contents = file_get_contents("myfile.txt"); //assuming your using PHP 4.3 and higher

echo $contents['0'];

?>

If your not then or that doesnt work

$contents = file("myfile.txt"); //assuming your using PHP 4.3 and higher

echo $contents['0'];

?>

Weedpacket

Or just [man]fopen[/man] the file, [man]fgets[/man] one line, fclose the file, and display the line. Saves on reading the entire file into memory just for that first line.

jayant

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Or just [man]fopen[/man] the file, [man]fgets[/man] one line, fclose the file, and display the line. Saves on reading the entire file into memory just for that first line.

highly recommended if your text file is big in size.

wbsmith89

hmm.. I seem to be having some trouble..

planetsim's code seems to output nothing and I can't seem to get jayant's idea to display only the first line, it's outputing the whole text file.

you can have a look at the source and the output

Once again thanks so much for your help.

Weedpacket

Well, yes. You're telling it to output the whole text file. That's what the loop does: keeps reading lines and outputting them for as long as there are still lines in the file to read.

$handle = fopen("http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/txt/recent/wbsmith89", "r");
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
fclose($handle);

This is why cut-and-paste programming usually doesn't work.

wbsmith89

Thanks guys, it's working now.

jayant

you forgot something dude.

read my sig and you will know what needs to be done 🙂