Question

I’ve read some posts where a php file opens and writes the info to a database. But it has a delimeter such as | or , or ..

However, I have a txt file that deals with numbers and the delimter is a space between numbers.

For example user 1 with userlevel of site 12 and admin status of 12:

977970 12 12

Another example of multiple users:

977970 password 12 12
100490 password 3  12

Each new line is a new user with their indiviual details.

And the second half to this, is that it needs to update the text file with new users. I’m sure the update will need a cron job running.

Answer 1

If i understood the problem right. You are trying to read from a file and store it into a database where your records are delimited by space & I haven’t checked the code but it should work or at least give you an idea

<?php
    $data = Array();
    $handle = @fopen("/Your/File.txt", "r");  
    if ($handle) {
       while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
          $data[]= $line;                    // read each line and store in array
       }
       if (!feof($handle)) {
           echo "Error";
       }
       fclose($handle);
       getDelimitedVals($data);
   }

your function to separate the record

   function getDelimitedVals($data) {
       if(empty($data)) {
           return false;
       }
       foreach($data as $line) {
           $dbData[] = explode(" ", $line);     // this will separate the uname, pwd, id and store in new arry
       }

       return dbData;
   }