[RESOLVED] Reading/Displaying Text from Flat File

joviyach

I was able to correct an issue I had with writing data to a flat file with PHP last night, and I can read and display the text from the .txt file as well, but I am now wanting to make the displayed data look nice. I am using the following...

<?php
//create short variable name
$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."xxx";
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Guest Book Entries</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php

@ $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/xxx/guest.txt", 'rb');

if (!$fp)
{
echo 'Nada!';
exit;
}

while (!feof($fp))
{
$guest= fgets($fp, 999);
echo $guest.' ';
}

fclose($fp);

?>
</body>
</html>

which produces output like this when executing the script...

crap username crap@crap.com eaddress craptastic comments

The bold items are the actual variable names. So, what I want to do is reverse the way this appears (ex: variable name first, data after) and make it look a little prettier (ex: a table maybe?)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jim

drew010

you can probably use [man]explode[/man] to get the values into array elements and then print them in any order you want with html tags around them.

joviyach

I did not end up using an array, rather I just changed the output string in the process.php file to reverse the order of the output printed on the screen and add more spaces. This was a college assignment for beginner PHP/MySQL and the assignment didn't call for arrays yet. (next chapter)