Reading a given line in a dat file

[Hatap]

Hey one and all, hope some one can help here.

I have a shoutbox that I would like to integrate into my websites css.

To do this I need to read 2 seperate files ThemesList.txt and username.dat and determine what theme is set as default.
NB: The users default theme overides the main default theme.

The contents of ThemesList.txt follow the following format and sets the main default theme:

$theme|$default|$images|$buttons

The contents of a typical file are:

winter||0|0
dark_state||0|0
shades_of_red||1|1
wood|1||1
zZillAfIeD||0|0

In this example wood is the deafult theme so I need to read the file, determine that wood is the default and output this to a variable called $shouttheme

I then need to open the username.dat, the format of the file is:

Password
Hatap
[e-mail]
1

http://www.anysite.co.uk

1
1116774932

winter

1117366561

English
100|100

30|9|17|40|3|10|6|gen|4|7|14|8|12|15|16

20400|1117366561

In this example the members default theme is winter and is on line 26 (0 being the 1st line. This should overide the main theme and therefore update the $shouttheme.

Is this possible?

[vaaaska]

Yep, it's possible. Is that all you want to know?

I'm guessing you'll want to read about file and explode for starters.

[Hatap]

:rolleyes:

I would like help on how to do it properly.

I'm a complete newbie to PHP, still have my head in the books and on a very steep learning curve.

I did come up with this for the first part and I should have posted it but I didn't because I'm sure it's not the best way to do it:

<?

// Configuration Page

$file = $_ENV['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/cgi-bin/forum/Prefs/ThemesList.txt'; 

$data = str_replace ( chr ( 9 ), '', file ( $file ) );

for ( $i = 0; $i < sizeof ( $data ); $i++ )
{
	$line = trim ( $data[$i] );

	if ( ! empty ( $line ) )
	{
		list ( $shouttheme, $default, $images, $buttons ) = explode ( '|', $line );

		if ( $default )
		{
echo $shouttheme; // This line is for testing...
				break;
			}
		}
	}
?>

and it works, can be seen here: http://www.pchelp4free.myby.co.uk/PHPShout/config.php

I'm totally stumped adding the second check. The file is located here:
h**p://www.pchelp4free.myby.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Members/Warlock.dat