Question

I am new to php. I have a text file which contains text something like this

<??blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   .......
??>

<??blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   .......
??>

<??blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   ...... .
??>

It means My main data is in between <?? and ??> I want to make an array which will contains all main data in array (removing these <?? & ??> charachter). So that I can insert the data items in MySql table. I don’t know how to make an array from file lile this.

Thanks for help!!!

Answer 1

You should be able to do this with explode and a little bit of creativity, like so:

$str = file_get_contents( 'yourfile.txt');
$array = explode( '<??', $str);
array_shift( $array); // first element is empty
array_walk( $array, function( &$el) { $el = str_replace( '??>', '', $el); });
var_dump( $array);

Now, your array looks something like:

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(52) "blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   .......


"
  [1]=>
  string(52) "blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   .......


"
  [2]=>
  string(49) "blah blahh blah
   blah blah blah
   ...... .
"
}