Import Text File

wverbist

Hi. I am new to PHP development and I am working on a very small project right now that I thought would be the perfect place for me to dive in and learn. So far, so good but the question I have is about importing a .txt file. I have the file importing properly and the CSS is applying properly but what I want to know is how to have a single .txt but attach variables to certain lines to just pull data from that section. This is hard to describe so here is the link to the page that I am working on:

http://www.williamverbist.com/_ethno/ethnic_spring.php

The area I am referring to is the Title(s) and product description. Is there a way that all of that data can be in a single text file but by adding varibles or arrays to lines that when you click on one of the circles to see another product that the copy area will change as well? I work a lot in Flash and have done that there many times but was not sure if it is possible with just PHP or do I actually need to build a small MySQL database? Since there will not be a ton of data here, I was trying to keep this as simple as possible.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

halojoy

this is one I have

style.css

<?php

$stylecss = <<<CSS1
<style type="text/css">
body        {background-color:#cfd7df; color:#550000; font-size:1em; margin:0; padding:0;}
div#page    {background-color:#eff7ff; 
             width:{$pagew}px; margin:10px 10px 10px 80px; border:1px solid #999999;}
div#head    {width:{$pagew}px; border-bottom:1px solid #e3e3e3;}
div#foot    {width:{$pagew}px; border-top:   1px solid #e3e3e3;}
</style>
CSS1;

?>

Usage:

<?php

// Variables must be defined before include 'style.css'
// pagewidth
$pagew= 800;
include( 'style.css' );

// build page source code
$htmsource  = '<html><head>' . $stylecss . '</head>';
$htmsource .= '<body>hello world</body></html>';

// display
echo $htmlsource;

?>

rowanparker

But .css files don't normally get parsed for PHP.
So, you could have a .php file and just link the stylesheet to that instead.

Also, don't some headers need to be sent like: header('Content-Type: text/css') or somet?