file() ignores strings after some space chars

phpecho

Hi all,

I'm trying to open a text file with the function file().

This is a sample of the log file when reading with notepad:

20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	Downloading File: -->
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	        <filename = SiteStat.xml>
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	        <dwFlags = 0x4>
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	        <localdir = C:\qwerty\qwerty>
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	        <remotedir = \>
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	        <sitename = ytrewq>
20060203091455	I	#3328	InetMgr	Connecting to site = ytrewq,

When I run this php on my browser:

$mylog = file(c:\logs\log001.log);
print_r($mylog);

I get the following output on my internet browser:

[60] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr Downloading File: --> 
[61] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr 
[62] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr 
[63] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr 
[64] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr 
[65] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr 
[66] => 20060203061429 I #1992 InetMgr Connecting to site = ytrewq,

Why is the file() function ignoring the strings that are after the spaces??? :queasy:

Regards,
RD

frost110

I love easy questions like this. It is not PHP it is the html aspect. Try this:


$mylog = file(c:\logs\log001.log);

print "<pre>";
print_r($mylog);
print "</pre>";

See if it all displays.

Also if you view the source of the page you will see the whole document.

The <> act as tags for html. Thus the page is being displayed as html, well since they look like tags, to the browser they are tags.

Hope that helps.

--FrosT

Installer

Also: If, e.g., you wanted to output one line or part of one line at a time (to show in a table, say), you could use htmlentities().

phpecho

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

Frost110, I'll try following your suggestion tomorrow.

However I'm only using the print_r function to look on how the text is beinig parsed.
After opening the log with file(), I'll parse it with preg_split, in order to build the array I require.

For example:

$logarray = preg_split("/\r/", $mylog);

From your tip I assume that I must put the echo of $logarray[#] inside <pre> tags.

Regards,
RD

phpecho

Hello again,

Frost110, that didn't work out. Here's the output with the <pre> tags.


[136] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	Downloading File: -->

[137] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	        

[138] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	        

[139] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	        

[140] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	        

[141] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	        

[142] => 20060205231839	I	#3300	InetMgr	Connecting to site = ytrewq,

The code I used was:

print "<pre>";
print_r($mylog);
print "</pre>";

Regards,
RD

phpecho

Installer wrote:
Also: If, e.g., you wanted to output one line or part of one line at a time (to show in a table, say), you could use htmlentities().

Just tried echoing the output with htmlentities() and it work! 😃

Thanks for the tip Installer.

Regards,
RD

Weedpacket

Easier would have just been to use the browser's source view of the page, instead of the HTML-rendered version....

kurtfury

i was woundering if you might help me im having a similar problem .

im trying to put a log.txt file into a array so that i can echo a single line in the log or just a portion of the line to use in a table .

this what my log looks like :

a3ca8063b401913b1fad1cbd75c1f1f7 "joe" "xxx.xxx.xxx" home1
f2f4b26c73d1cb24344114224d742fa4 "mike" "xxx.xxx.xxx"home2

could you give an example to look at ?
thanks for your help.

ClarkF1

I did this recently.........

I have a file called files.txt which contains the following:

7ad6ace532b83674d38629638e86cfe6|avatar2.jpg|278648|192.168.254.1
ba1d118ec9dbd0b61872883ac1db1133|batracer.jpg|265095|192.168.254.2
85f377352b62e22edab31552a6a7d30c|icute.jpg|133255|192.168.254.3
49f0a58515b57f283932f2aff216a76f|plugb.jpg|339117|192.168.254.4

// initialise array
$order = array(); 

//read file contents into an array
//each line will be one element
$checkfiles=file("./files.txt");

//cycle through each line of the array and split it into sections using explode
// | is the character I used for separation of elements. 
foreach($checkfiles as $line)
{
// add each element to the array
$order[] = explode('|', $line);
}

This will create a two-dimensional array which looks like the following:

Array
(
   [0] => Array
       (
           [0] => 7ad6ace532b83674d38629638e86cfe6
           [1] => avatar2.jpg
           [2] => 278648
           [3] => 192.168.254.1
       )

   [1] => Array
       (
           [0] => ba1d118ec9dbd0b61872883ac1db1133
           [1] => batracer.jpg
           [2] => 265095
           [3] => 192.168.254.2
       )

   [2] => Array
       (
           [0] => 85f377352b62e22edab31552a6a7d30c
           [1] => icute.jpg
           [2] => 133255
           [3] => 192.168.254.3
       )

   [3] => Array
       (
           [0] => 49f0a58515b57f283932f2aff216a76f
           [1] => plugb.jpg
           [2] => 339117
           [3] => 192.168.254.4
       )

)

If I wanted to print out the a list of all the file-names I would do the following:

for ($i = 0; $i < count($order); $i++) {
echo $subarray[$i][1]."<br>";
}

This would produce:

avatar2.jpg
batracer.jpg
icute.jpg
plugb.jpg

Hope that helps