Question

I’ve got a form uploading input lines of text to a .txt file and would like to display the last 25 lines of the text file on the page with the text entry form (I’d also like to give each line a random left margin value between 1-800px) – how can I achieve it?

Answer 1

I think you will want to check out file(), array_slice(), and rand().

Perhaps something like:

$output = "";
$lines = array_slice(file("test.txt"), -25, 25);

foreach ( $lines as $line )
{
    $output .= '<div style="margin-left: ' . rand(1, 800) . 'px;">' . $line . '</div>';
}

echo $output;