[RESOLVED] Parsing Simple Web Into an Array

[scrupul0us]

Given:

var symLurls = [ 'a.html','b.html', ];
var symLnames = [ 'a name','b name', ];
var symLdates = [ '04-07-06','04-06-06', ];
var symLrisks = [ level 1, level 1, ];

now that is on a website... simple dumpfile that I need to read into php and make arrays out of... i truncated the listings but that is the format... at the end of the arrays posted there is always a comma, don't know why, thats just how its dumped

how would I go about reading each line 's vars into a php array (non-keyed) with the same name as given above

as stated, this is all i'm given as a dump file, I have no control of how its dumped

im running php 5

now I'd assume u could use fopen(url,r) but that will read everything... not really sure how to read just one line, and after that how to break the data out

any help is appreciated!!

[Installer]

Here's one way:

$lines = file('test.txt');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    if (strpos($line, '=') === false) {
        continue;
    }
    $parts = explode('=', $line); 
    $arr_name = substr(trim($parts[0]), 4);
    $val_str = trim($parts[1], " [;],'\r\n");
    $values = explode(',', $val_str);
    foreach ($values as $key => $val) {
        $values[$key] = trim($val, "' ");
    }
    ${$arr_name} = $values;
    echo '<pre>';
    echo '$' . $arr_name . '<br />';
    print_r(${$arr_name});
    echo '</pre>';
}

[scrupul0us]

heres what i've got so far:

<?php

$handle = file_get_contents("<confidential>","r");

$contents = explode(";", $handle);

echo $contents[0] . "<br>";
echo $contents[1] . "<br>";
echo $contents[2] . "<br>";

?>

so now i have each "array" from the website in its own php array... now i just have to hack the string inside apart... I'm thing regex the array vars to remove the begining and ending junk... alas I suck at regex.. so off to php.net for me!

[scrupul0us]

w00t.. got it!

<?php

$handle = file_get_contents("<confidential>","r");
$contents = explode(";", $handle);

for($i=0; $i <= 3; $i++)
{
	$contents[$i] = ereg_replace("(var sym).*(= \[)","",$contents[$i]);
	$contents[$i] = ereg_replace("(, \])","",$contents[$i]);
	$contents[$i] = ereg_replace("'","",$contents[$i]);
	switch ($i) 
	{
		case 0:
		$url = explode(",",$contents[$i]);
		break;
		case 1:
		$name = explode(",",$contents[$i]);
		break;
		case 2:
		$date = explode(",",$contents[$i]);
		break;
		case 3:
		$risk = explode(",",$contents[$i]);
		break;
	}
}

//DEBUG
print_r($url);
print_r($name);
print_r($date);
print_r($risk);

?>

thanks for your code suggestion installer... it gave me the mental boost to get moving even if my solution is a bit diff 🙂