How to read from a file??

[martinb7]

hi, how do you read from a file?

this is my code so far:

<?php
$TheFile = &quot;root.php&quot;;
$Open = fopen($Filename, &quot;r&quot;);
	if($Open){
		$Data = file($TheFile);
			for($n = 0; $n < count($Data); $n++){
				$GetLine = explode(&quot;\t&quot;, $Data[$n]);
					echo(&quot;$GetLine[0]&quot;);
			}

fclose($Open);
	}else{
		echo(&quot;File error&quot;);
	}
?>

is there a better way of doing it? if so please say

any tutorials??

thanx


Martin

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[xhtml101]

<?PHP
$fd=fopen(&quot;/tmp/afile&quot;,&quot;r&quot;
while ($line=fgets($fd,1000))
{
$alltext.=$line;
}
fclose ($fd);
?>

Hope this help!

Sincerely,

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Lead programmer
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[martinb7]

hi, it doesn't display any errors, but its not displaying any code?

can you only read from a .txt file not .php?

thanx

Martin

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[sleipnir214]

martinb7:
Actually, a simpler script with the same functionality of xhtml101's example is:

<?php
$an_array = file('/tmp/afile');
?>

But what this script does is read the file into an array. You can output that array line-by-line.

If you want to stream a file out to the browser, then a script like:

<?php
readfile ('/tmp/afile');
?>

is probably the easiest way.

PHP has a lot of special-purpose functions for file manipulation.


It looks like you're taking each line of the file, treating tab-characters as columns, and outputting the first column of each line.

I would not read the whole file into an array for that. I strongly recommend that you process as-you-go unless you specifically need to keep the entire file in memory.

Something like:

<?php
$TheFile = &quot;root.php&quot;;
$Open = fopen($Filename, &quot;r&quot;);
if($Open)
{
	while ($line = fgets($Open);
	{
		$line = rtrim($line);
		$linearray = explode(&quot;\t&quot;, $line);
		print $linearray[0];
	}
	fclose($Open);
}
else
{
	echo(&quot;File error&quot;);
}
?>

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