Populate Drop Down With Text File Data

[mj99]

I have a text file with the following fields.

item
file

Here's how it looks now.

TEST ITEM | test.pdf
ANOTHER EBOOK | another.zip

I need to create a dropdown list populated by the data in the item field.

The posted variable name is $item_name and the value should be the names of the items in the item field.

Can anyone help get me going on this?

[adcworks]

you'll want to look here first

http://uk.php.net/file

and then consider for each looped line using explode for your separator pipe

http://uk2.php.net/explode

you should see what i'm getting at by looking at these refs.

[Rodney_H_]

This might work for your needs with some modifications:

 <form action="process_form.php" method="post" name="items">
<select name="item_name">
<option selected="selected">Please Choose One:</option>
<?php
// define file
$file = 'test.txt';

$handle = @fopen($file, 'r');
if ($handle) {
   while (!feof($handle)) {
       $line = fgets($handle, 4096);
       $item = explode('|', $line);
       echo '<option value="' . $item[0] . '">' . $item[0] . '</option>' . "\n";
   }
   fclose($handle);
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form> 

[mj99]

Perfect. Thanks!