[Mendo]

I have a php script that writes inputed info to a text file, adding new lines each time, so the write to file looks this:

fwrite($text_file, "$example|$catagory||\n");

and the text file contents would be like this:

testing|test one||
test|test two||

So the thing I'm trying to ask is, how would I get the contents in the text file to be displayed in an html table, so it would sort of look like this:

<table><tr><td>
testing
</td><td>
test one
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
test
</td><td>
test two
</td></tr></table>

Also, does php have a function that would allow the lines in the text file to be displayed in the html tables alphabetically?

[Mendo]

I think I might have posted in wrong section.. maybe this was more for Script Request?

[NeverMind]

Originally Posted by Mendo

I think I might have posted in wrong section.. maybe this was more for Script Request?

no this is the right place..
to do this, you need to use file();
read each line and explode it and then echo it..

PHP Code:

//first, get the file...

$file = file('file.txt');



//now count the lines ..

$lines = count($file);



//start the table here..

echo'<table border="0" width="100%">';



//start the loop to get all lines in the table..

for ($i=0; $i<=$lines; $i++) {



//get each line and exlplode it..

  $part = explode('|', $file[$i]);

//now start printing ..

  echo'<tr>

              <td width="50%">'.$part[0].'</td>

              <td width="50%">'.$part[1].'</td>

         </tr>';

}



//close the table so HTML wont suffer :P

echo'</table>'; 

I highly suggest that you don't close your line with double || , just leave them blank ..