return a single line from a text doc

[sciguyryan]

Have a look at the file() function - it should help you

Cheers,

RyanJ

[dandono]

ok i get what that function does but i dont get how to make it display only one line and that line being $line. how do i do this?

[sciguyryan]

ok i get what that function does but i dont get how to make it display only one line and that line being $line. how do i do this?

Because the function returns the array, just pass the $line as the index to get the required line

Cheers,

RyanJ

[dandono]

i think that this is not the best way to do this but it is the only way i can think. now somebody is going to come up with a code a houndred times better than mine in like five minuets.
this is my code. i will set it to open a local text file in a bit.

<?php
// Get a file into an array.  In this example we'll go through HTTP to get 
// the HTML source of a URL.
$lines = file('http://www.php.net/');
$no = $_GET['line'];

// Loop through our array, show HTML source as HTML source; and line numbers too.
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
if ($line_num == $no)
echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}

// Another example, let's get a web page into a string.  See also file_get_contents().
$html = implode('', file('http://www.example.com/'));
?>

thanks for the help

[dandono]

how do you get that code to view a text doc on the server mechine like the path D:/blah.txt? is it just with fread?