[resolved] How to read a specific line from a file? using php..

[alexdata]

If i have a .HTML or .INI or .PHP file on my server, how can i make a .php site that reads a single specific line from that file..

ex:

i have the file INFO.INI containing:

NAME: somename somelastname
ADRESS: somewheres adress
CONTRY: somecountry
MOBILE: somemobilenumber

and then i want a file called ex: READ.PHP

that can read this INFO.INI and pull the info from ex MOBILE into a string called $MOBILE and then create a HTML code containing this info..
ex:
<?php
/some code to get the the MOBILE info from the INFO.INI
echo "<font color=red>" . $MOBILE . "</font>" ;
?>

something like this.. can anyone help me out a little..
hope you guys get what i mean, kinda hard to explain..
Thanks in advance...for any help regarding this.,..

(Cause i have a few domains like www.hfa.no and www.forbruksartikler.no where im to remake a webshops preview system into something quite simpler, but i cant really figure out how to make PHP read from a file this way, but i know that it is possible,cause i've seen it be done other places...)

[alacritous]

If you know the line number, you can use this:

<?
$lines = file('   ');
$l_count = count($lines);
for($x = 0; $x< $l_count; $x++)
{
}

echo "<font color=red>" . $lines[0] . "</font>" ;
?>

0 being line 1
1 being line 2
etc.

[dandono]

hi, im not having a go at you or anything but i asked this kinf of question a few days ago and why put "using php.." at the end of your title when it is in the PHP forum. here is my thread i asked a few days ago http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=342531. it should help. you could change the code to use math to do with the number of lines and all the other things in between it or something.

[alexdata]

Thanks, alacritous.. Your code worked exellent!!

I modified it to my needs and now i can have it "build" the content of a website from a single textfile.. so i can edit the textfile easily, and keep the site's design intact without ruinin anything.. very handy...
Thanks alot,..

DanDono.. I read your thread, but that didnt really suit my needs.. so therefore i asked the question again.. in a slightly different way, and i wrote USING PHP, because i know many would tend to answer in any other languages they know.. happened to me in the VB part of this forum, that i got answers using java, or c, or php... so thats why... hehe, but thanks for your thread, gave out some other handy info...

I uploaded two files for people who wants to try this out right away.. its a PHP and a TXT file.. upload both to your server and open the PHP one.. now it will build a HTML site from the text in the InFO.txt.. edit the txt file and your HTML site will be easily reddesigned in the same style..
PS: rename the "AutoFiller.php.txt" to something like "AutoFill.php" or "index.php"

[auvi1]

I found you work and love it, now I'm trying to implement it on a project I have but just don’t seem to make it work... here’s the problem I have:

1 loader file:

<?php $dic2010= "some url";?>
<?PHP
$notas = file('2010/ligas.txt');
count($notas);
include ("$dic2010"."$notas[0]");
?>

2. ligas.txt (urls)

58expoliciasdetenidosenjuliosaldranfloresesquerro.html
60monrcasnoquieren comer.html

The problem I have is that if I want to include the second url using the same method, nothing works.

I Get a message that says:

[function.include]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in etc. etc.

But if I only put one line in the text file and only reference on file in the incudes, it works...

What I want to do is to be able to load multiple includes in different parts of my main index.php

Can you help me? Please.

[auvi1]

Forgot to mention if I put 5 url's in the text file it only reads de las on the list

[auvi1]

Also used this and same result:

<?PHP
$lines = file('2010/ligas.txt');
$l_count = count($lines);
for($x = 0; $x< $l_count; $x++)
{
}
include ("$dic2010"."$lines[2]");
?>
where $lines[2] is the 3th line on the ligas.txt file... and that’s the online it reads, if I add a 4th line in the ligas file it will read the 4th line as long as it's the last in the list and called bye $lines last line.

[kows]

first, that code you have there doesn't make much sense. you have a for loop that loops through the lines in the file, but you're not doing anything in the for loop. you need to change the code to the following:

<?php
  $lines = file('2010/ligas.txt');
  $l_count = count($lines);
  for($i = 0; $i< $l_count; $i++)
  {
    include($dic2010 . $lines[$i]);
  }
?>

if you see what I've changed, now instead of referencing $lines[2], I'm referencing $lines[$i], which is the current line index of the loop. if you're getting errors still about files not existing, then the file doesn't exist. PHP uses a relative path from the file being run for includes, so if your path goes to /includes/somefile.php, then the /includes/ folder needs to exist in the same directory that the PHP file being run exists in (presumably index.php).

let me know if you have anymore questions.

[auvi1]

Didn't work... sorry

[auvi1]

<?php
  $lines = file('2010/ligas.txt');
  $l_count = count($lines);
  for($i = 0; $i< $l_count; $i++)
  {
    include($dic2010 . $lines[$i]);
  }
?>

how do I separate files in my final output?? I don't get it

[kows]

you said it didn't work -- now, does it work? there isn't anything wrong with the code I posted. you have to make sure the files you reference in ligas.txt exist and $dic2010 is defined somewhere.

what do you mean, how do you separate files? as soon as the file is included, it will be executed. if the file is simply printing content out, then that content will be printed out as if it existed in the current file. if you want something else to be output every time you include a file, you would do that inside of the for loop:

for( ... ){
  
  // Place a horizontal rule
  echo '<hr />';

  include( ... );

  // Print a message
  echo 'That was file #' . ($i + 1);

} 

in this example, a horizontal rule will be placed before each file's contents. then, after the content, it will display a message saying which file was just printed (starting at 1).