Hi there
I currently have a .txt file (lets call it jimharper.txt) that holds a
number of arrays like for instance:
$name[] = "Jim Harper"
$relatives[] = "Joan Harper (wife)"
$relatives[] = "Beth Harper (daughter)"
$occupation[] = "Police officer"
$occupation[] = "Teacher"
That I need to be imported into another file (profile.php) so that when
I open profile.php?name=jimharper it extracts the information from the
jimharper.txt file which resides in a different directory.
So the output in the profile.php?name=jimharper would be something like:
Name: Jim Harper
Relatives: Joan Harper (wife), Beth Harper (daughter)
Occupation: Police officer, Teacher
I can figure out how to do it if the arrays were in the same file as the
code but it's not.
I've tried all sorts of things but by now my coding is such a big mess
that I'd rather not share it as it would probably only confuse matters.
Anybody have any ideas?
Kim Jensen 13 1565
Can you just include the txt file in your profile.php? Something like:
$file = "/path/to/file/" . $name . ".txt";
require($file);
rich wrote: Can you just include the txt file in your profile.php? Something like:
$file = "/path/to/file/" . $name . ".txt"; require($file);
As far as I can see that includes the entire .txt file in the .php page.
I "only" need it to extract the information in the arrays in the .txt
file and sometimes not even all of the arrays. I have two .php files
that extract different (and in some cases some of the same) information
from the .txt file.
Kim Jensen
Ah I didn't realize that would be a problem. The only thing I can
think of, and this is a TOTAL guess, but
Open file
while reading file
if the line starts with a var that i want ($name)
eval() the line
Got it. I made the below just check the first 3 chars of a line... you
can change it to check the line however..
Text file contains:
$foo = "bar";
php file has:
$file = "file.txt";
$fp = fopen($file, "r");
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 1024);
$FirstThree = substr($line, 0, 3);
if ($FirstThree == "\$fo") {
eval($line);
echo $foo;
}
}
The above returns "bar"
rich wrote: Got it. I made the below just check the first 3 chars of a line... you can change it to check the line however..
Seems to be working. I don't understand the need for the line-checking
though. Shouldn't it be possible to just ask it to get the $foo-array
once the file has been opened?
Kim Jensen
Text file contains:
$foo = "bar";
php file has:
$file = "file.txt"; $fp = fopen($file, "r"); while (!feof($fp)) { $line = fgets($fp, 1024); $FirstThree = substr($line, 0, 3); if ($FirstThree == "\$fo") { eval($line); echo $foo; } }
The above returns "bar"
Kim Jensen wrote: rich wrote:
Got it. I made the below just check the first 3 chars of a line... you can change it to check the line however..
Seems to be working. I don't understand the need for the line-checking though. Shouldn't it be possible to just ask it to get the $foo-array once the file has been opened?
Kim Jensen
Text file contains:
$foo = "bar";
php file has:
$file = "file.txt"; $fp = fopen($file, "r"); while (!feof($fp)) { $line = fgets($fp, 1024); $FirstThree = substr($line, 0, 3); if ($FirstThree == "\$fo") { eval($line); echo $foo; } }
The above returns "bar"
Kim,
Opening a file does not process it - all it is is a bunch of text. So
foo-array doesn't exist. Rich is correct - you need to eval() the lines
to make it work.
However, I think this would be a lot easier with a database!
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp. js*******@attglobal.net
==================
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Opening a file does not process it - all it is is a bunch of text. So foo-array doesn't exist. Rich is correct - you need to eval() the lines to make it work.
Ok. I get it.
However, I think this would be a lot easier with a database!
Probably. It's just that I have thousands of files and turning them into
a database would probably take me forever as I don't know of any easy
ways of doing so.
Kim Jensen
Kim Jensen wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Opening a file does not process it - all it is is a bunch of text. So foo-array doesn't exist. Rich is correct - you need to eval() the lines to make it work.
Ok. I get it.
However, I think this would be a lot easier with a database!
Probably. It's just that I have thousands of files and turning them into a database would probably take me forever as I don't know of any easy ways of doing so.
Kim Jensen
Kim,
Yep, it is a chore. But next year you'll have even more files to
convert. And you'll still be spending time manually keying things like
this in, checking for errors, etc.
A database can really help. Perhaps you can automate the processing of
the files with a program?
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp. js*******@attglobal.net
==================
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Yep, it is a chore. But next year you'll have even more files to convert. And you'll still be spending time manually keying things like this in, checking for errors, etc.
I know. However I have next to no experience with working on databases
but know a bit of php so for now doing it like this seems easier. Right
now my main .php script looks like this:
-----
if ($_GET["name"]) {
$lines = explode("\n",file_get_contents("Who/" .
strtolower($_GET["name"]) . ".txt"));
foreach ($lines as $item) {
if ($item != "") {
$parts = explode("=",trim($item),2);
$item_vars[$parts[0]] = $parts[1];
}
}
-----
and then I retrieve the information using stuff like
echo $item_vars["occupation"]
echo $item_vars["occupation2"]
from a file that has:
occupation=Police officer
occupation2=Teacher
The code end up looking like shit when I have to add for instance up to
echo $item_vars["occupation20"] so I was looking for an easier way to do
it, so that I didn't have to make sure the .php page always had as many
echo's as the .txt pages had $item_vars
I know a database would probably be the best way to get things organized
but until I figure out how to configure one for what I need I just
wanted to clean up my php.
A database can really help. Perhaps you can automate the processing of the files with a program?
Do you know of any programs that can do that or know where I can look
for some? Considering everything is in .txt files at the moment I would
guess it would be easy turning them files into something that could
easily be converted after a couple of search/replaces or something.
Kim Jensen
Kim Jensen wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Yep, it is a chore. But next year you'll have even more files to convert. And you'll still be spending time manually keying things like this in, checking for errors, etc.
I know. However I have next to no experience with working on databases but know a bit of php so for now doing it like this seems easier. Right now my main .php script looks like this:
----- if ($_GET["name"]) { $lines = explode("\n",file_get_contents("Who/" . strtolower($_GET["name"]) . ".txt"));
foreach ($lines as $item) { if ($item != "") { $parts = explode("=",trim($item),2); $item_vars[$parts[0]] = $parts[1]; } } -----
and then I retrieve the information using stuff like
echo $item_vars["occupation"] echo $item_vars["occupation2"]
from a file that has:
occupation=Police officer occupation2=Teacher
The code end up looking like shit when I have to add for instance up to echo $item_vars["occupation20"] so I was looking for an easier way to do it, so that I didn't have to make sure the .php page always had as many echo's as the .txt pages had $item_vars
I know a database would probably be the best way to get things organized but until I figure out how to configure one for what I need I just wanted to clean up my php.
A database can really help. Perhaps you can automate the processing of the files with a program?
Do you know of any programs that can do that or know where I can look for some? Considering everything is in .txt files at the moment I would guess it would be easy turning them files into something that could easily be converted after a couple of search/replaces or something.
Kim Jensen
Kim,
Nope, don't know of any programs which can take a custom file such as
yours and convert it. Most programs which do things like you are doing
use databases.
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp. js*******@attglobal.net
==================
Kim Jensen wrote: rich wrote: Can you just include the txt file in your profile.php? Something
like: $file = "/path/to/file/" . $name . ".txt"; require($file); As far as I can see that includes the entire .txt file in the .php
page. I "only" need it to extract the information in the arrays in the
..txt file
<snip>
If the text file is enclosed with php tags (<?php...?>), the php
parser will parse the included file irrespective of the file extension.
--
<?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?>
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/
R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote: Kim Jensen wrote:
rich wrote:
Can you just include the txt file in your profile.php? Something like: $file = "/path/to/file/" . $name . ".txt"; require($file);
As far as I can see that includes the entire .txt file in the .php
page.
I "only" need it to extract the information in the arrays in the
.txt
file
<snip>
If the text file is enclosed with php tags (<?php...?>), the php parser will parse the included file irrespective of the file extension.
-- <?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?> Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/
Not unless you open it through Apache AND have the file extension set up
in Apache to handle PHP.
For instance - placed in a .html file, PHP code will NOT be parsed (even
if it's withint <? and ?>) unless you tell Apache to parse .html files
as PHP.
And they will NEVER be parsed if you open them with fopen() - as was
recommended here.
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp. js*******@attglobal.net
==================
Jerry Stuckle wrote: R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:Can you just include the txt file in your profile.php? Something like:
$file = "/path/to/file/" . $name . ".txt"; require($file);
As far as I can see that includes the entire .txt file in the .php
page. I "only" need it to extract the information in the arrays in the
..txtfile <snip> If the text file is enclosed with php tags (<?php...?>), the php parser will parse the included file irrespective of the file
extension. Not unless you open it through Apache AND have the file extension set
up in Apache to handle PHP.
For instance - placed in a .html file, PHP code will NOT be parsed
(even if it's withint <? and ?>) unless you tell Apache to parse .html
files as PHP.
And they will NEVER be parsed if you open them with fopen() - as was recommended here.
As you see, the context of discussion is about require/include .txt
file in .php page. And your comment is hardly relevant here.
--
<?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?>
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/ This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
by: Dariusz |
last post by:
I want to use arrays in my website (flat file for a guestbook), but despite
having read through countless online tutorials on the topic, I just can't
get my code to work.
I know there are...
|
by: da Vinci |
last post by:
OK, this has got to be a simple one and yet I cannot find the answer
in my textbook.
How can I get a simple pause after an output line, that simply waits
for any key to be pressed to move on?
...
|
by: baustin75 |
last post by:
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject: cannot mail() in ie
only when debugging in php designer 2005
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
|
by: Mingus Tsai |
last post by:
Hello- please help with unpickling problem:
I am using Python version 2.3.4 with IDLE version 1.0.3 on a Windows
XPhome system.
My problem is with using cPickle to deserialize my pickled...
|
by: bobmct |
last post by:
Fellow PHP'ers;
I'm digging myself a hole on this one so I thought it has come to the
time when I must ask those who know.
I have what should be a simple question for loading, accessing and...
| |
by: Rex |
last post by:
Hi All - I have a question that I think MIGHT be of interest to a
number of us developers. I am somewhat new to VIsual Studio 2005 but
not new to VB. I am looking for ideas about quick and...
|
by: Jay |
last post by:
I have a multi threaded VB.NET application (4 threads) that I use to send
text messages to many, many employees via system.timer at a 5 second
interval. Basically, I look in a SQL table (queue) to...
|
by: weidongtom |
last post by:
Hi,
I've written the code that follows, and I use the function add_word(),
it seems to work fine
*before* increase_arrays() is called that uses realloc() to allocate
more memory to words. But...
|
by: ndedhia1 |
last post by:
I am reading in a file to see what delays I am getting on what IP address:
QuoteBlockTiming exceeded 1000 ms: 1684 --- Fri Nov 06 06:09:10 CST 2009 170.137.94.95 Class key = 649126730 block...
|
by: marktang |
last post by:
ONU (Optical Network Unit) is one of the key components for providing high-speed Internet services. Its primary function is to act as an endpoint device located at the user's premises. However,...
|
by: Hystou |
last post by:
Most computers default to English, but sometimes we require a different language, especially when relocating. Forgot to request a specific language before your computer shipped? No problem! You can...
| |
by: Oralloy |
last post by:
Hello folks,
I am unable to find appropriate documentation on the type promotion of bit-fields when using the generalised comparison operator "<=>".
The problem is that using the GNU compilers,...
|
by: jinu1996 |
last post by:
In today's digital age, having a compelling online presence is paramount for businesses aiming to thrive in a competitive landscape. At the heart of this digital strategy lies an intricately woven...
|
by: Hystou |
last post by:
Overview:
Windows 11 and 10 have less user interface control over operating system update behaviour than previous versions of Windows. In Windows 11 and 10, there is no way to turn off the Windows...
|
by: conductexam |
last post by:
I have .net C# application in which I am extracting data from word file and save it in database particularly. To store word all data as it is I am converting the whole word file firstly in HTML and...
|
by: TSSRALBI |
last post by:
Hello
I'm a network technician in training and I need your help.
I am currently learning how to create and manage the different types of VPNs and I have a question about LAN-to-LAN VPNs.
The...
|
by: 6302768590 |
last post by:
Hai team
i want code for transfer the data from one system to another through IP address by using C# our system has to for every 5mins then we have to update the data what the data is updated ...
| |
by: muto222 |
last post by:
How can i add a mobile payment intergratation into php mysql website.
| |