[RESOLVED] php highscore

[troubleshoot]

Hi, can sombody help me to make a highscore list, reading from a flat file
and display in a table, $PlayerName / $Reputation

textfile looks like this.
mandy|404
jack|40
jim|43

just some random codes i found which may help you, i havent a clue about php but it may help to open the file, and the other to split the data to display in the table

$fp = fopen('highscores.txt','r');
if (!$fp) {echo 'ERROR: Unable to open file.</table></body></html>'; exit;}

list ($PlayerName, $Reputation) = split ('|', $line);

[RudiVisser]

$conts = file_get_contents('highscores.txt');
$lines =explode("\n", $conts);
echo '<table width="100%" border="1"><tr><th>Player Name</th><th>Reputation</th></tr>';
foreach($lines As $line) {
   list ($playerName, $playerReputation) = split ('|', $line);
   echo '<tr><td>'.$playerName.'</td><td>'.$playerReputation.'</td></tr>';
}
echo '</table>'; 

Hope that helps.

[troubleshoot]

thank you for the help, i added phptags and tried running it in phpeditor from my desktop..but it dont seem to list the data

[RudiVisser]

Try putting it on a PHP Enabled Server?

[troubleshoot]

i`ll get back to you, the clients ready..it uploads the highscore list to the ftp,

im just waiting on the admin to return home...he owns the website.

[RudiVisser]

At the top of the script file, put

error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); 

Then we can see if there's any errors opening the file, or exploding it, etc.

[troubleshoot]

it gave me a blank white screen, so i googled what you said and used something that proped up

ini_set("display_startup_errors","1");
ini_set("display_errors","1");

then this happened.

Warning: split(): REG_EMPTY in C:\Documents and Settings\Main\Desktop\php1F5A.tmp on line 10    
Warning: split(): REG_EMPTY in C:\Documents and Settings\Main\Desktop\php1F5A.tmp on line 10    
Warning: split(): REG_EMPTY in C:\Documents and Settings\Main\Desktop\php1F5A.tmp on line 10

so i guess line 10 splitfunction is the problem,

changing
list ($playerName, $playerReputation) = split ('|', $line);
to
list ($playerName, $playerReputation) = split ('\|', $line);

fixed the problem!!!!! couldnt be happier thank you,
i dont know why it needed the \ wish i did..but i just tried it because
i saw it in the old splitfunction and thought it was out of place in my first post.

[RudiVisser]

Ah yeah, my fault.

The split function takes a regular expression as a parameter, and '|' is a special character in regex. Hence you need to escape it (Prepend with '\'), totally my fault for copying that line from your post and being too lazy to write it!!

However, glad you sorted it, click 'Thread Tools' then 'Mark as Resolved' then we all know it's fixed.

[penagate]

Use explode() instead of split() unless you really require a POSIX regular expression as the delimiter, and prefer preg_split() if you need regular expressions.