Question

I have this text file:

Dec 04 20:15 Naruto 123
Dec 04 17:42 Naruto 98
Dec 04 16:19 D Gray Man 001
Dec 04 16:05 Bleach 128
Dec 04 12:13 50 x 50 44

I need to output the contents into a table with the Date and Time in its own column and the Tile and Chapter in another.

Also.. I need to replace the Title and Chapter with a link that must be formatted this way:

<a href="/title/title chapter">title chapter</a>

For clarification the titles in the text file are:

Naruto
Naruto
D Gray Man
Bleach
50 x 50

And the chapters are the numbers that follow:

123
98
001
128
44

Answer 1

1. Read the file and store each line into an array.
2. Open <table> tag
3. Loop through the array and extract the date/time/title/chapter using regex.

Here is the regex to start with – you might want to modify it a little to meet your needs:

/^([a-zA-Z]{3}\s\d{2})\s(\d{2}:\d{2})\s(.+?)\s(\d+)\s*?$/
//$1 contains date : "Dec 04"
//$2 contains time : "20:15"
//$3 contains the title : "Naruto"
//$4 contains the chapter : "123"

For each item in the array, write appropriate <tr> & <td> tags filled with the extracted data.

Update:

<?php
$filedata = "Dec 04 20:15 Naruto 123
Dec 04 17:42 Naruto 98
Dec 04 16:19 D Gray Man 001
Dec 04 16:05 Bleach 128
Dec 04 12:13 50 x 50 44";

$lines = explode("\n", $filedata);

echo "<table border=\"1\">";

foreach($lines as $line)
{
    echo "<tr>";
    preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z]{3}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2})\s(.+?)\s(\d+)\s*?$/", $line, $matches);
    echo "<td>$matches[1]</td>";
    echo "<td><a href=\"/$matches[2]/$matches[2] $matches[3]\">$matches[2] $matches[3]</a></td>";
    echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>"
?>