[jasong]

How can i do it so i can open up a text file, and store the 1st line as $line1, the second line as $line2, etc for a script im doing?

For instance, i want if i had a text file that looke like
=======
pippin
frodo
samwise
merry
======

i could store line 1 as $name1, and then print $line1 etc.

Thanks,
Jason

[Lost]

You will have to store them in an array.


<?php

//Open the file for reading
$getfile = fopen("somefile.txt","r");
$i = 0;
//Loop through each line of the file until the end
while(!feof($getfile))
{
//Set the value of that line to the array $file
$file[$i] = fgets($getfile);
//Echo the value of that line
echo $file[$i];
$i++;
}

?>

[jasong]

Thanks for the reply!
is there a way i could make each line its own variable though?
like $name1, $name2, $name3 etc?
I want to be able to call these later.

Thanks!

[Marshall]

You can, using the code from above just do something like this

PHP Code:

$name1 = $file[0];   // First line in text document

$name2 = $file[1];   // Second line in text document

$name3 = $file[2];   // Third line in text document 

etc.

There is probably a while loop or a foreach loop you can do this with as well but I dont know it off the top of my head.

The $file variable is made into an array in the code previously posted so it can store the entire text file with the lines seperated by adding the [#] to end of variable to select which line number u want (starting at 0 for line 1).

[tylerc]

try a mysql database, more efficient