Question

i was wondering how i can use php to access text files and display the information using php arrays, this might seem like a newbie question, but i havent worked with external files.

so here goes.

home.txt:

ha15rs,250,home2.gif,2
ha36gs,150,home3.gif,1
ha27se,300,home4.gif,4
ha4678,200,home5.gif,5

what i wanted to do is sort this information in a html table, with each line as a row and 4 coloumns to represent the data!! thanks cheers :))

Answer 1

a start of deal with this :

  # echo before table headline
    ...........
    $handle = @fopen("myfile.txt","r");
    # read line by line
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        echo '<tr>';
            $array = explode(',', $buffer);
        foreach($array as $val){
             echo '<td>'.$val.'</td>';      
            } 
        echo '</tr>';       
    }