[creepycridler]

Hello all!

I have a question and need some guidence. I have this text file that holds some variables and would like to extract those variables and use it with php so I can post some information to a web page.

The text file looks kinda like this:

Code:

"top 5"
{
  "1"
  {     
     "name"          "[J5]Dirrty.Magic"
     "wins"           "6"
     "steam"         "STEAM_0:1:6568839"
  }
  "2"
  {     
     "name"          "none"
     "wins"           "5"
     "steam"         "0"
  }
  "3"
  {     
     "name"          "none"
     "wins"           "4"
     "steam"         "0"
  }
  "4"
  {     
     "name"          "[J5]Coffie"
     "wins"           "4"
     "steam"         "STEAM_0:0:498830"
  }
  "5"
  {     
     "name"          "none"
     "wins"           "3"
     "steam"         "0"
  }
}

The text file will always be in this format with the "name", "wins", and "steam" fields changing. I want to be able to make a table with 5 rows and 3 columns like this:
1st name1 #wins
2nd name2 #wins
3rd name3 #wins
4th name4 #wins
5th name5 #wins

I need some suggestions of how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Breezy]

I'll push you in a direction because I dont have any code right here right now that can do it... But I did have it somewhere, other computer. Anyways, involves implode() and explode() functions, a couple others as well. I wish I could help more.

[ngcomputing]

You can also format your text file into a CSV file then use fgetcsv() to parse it out -- in addition to the explode() function mentioned in the previous reply.

[ngcomputing]

Generating the source into an XML then parsing it with PHP would work well too.