Question

When reading in a text file via PHP as followed:

$file_handle = fopen("L:\\file.txt", "rb"); 
while (!feof($file_handle) ) 
{
    $line_of_text = fgets($file_handle); 
    $parts = explode('=', $line_of_text); 
    echo "<option value=\"$parts[0]\">$parts[0]</option>"; 
}
fclose($file_handle);   

… the HTML source code ends up looking like:

<option value="AACM
">AACM
</option><option value="Academic Registry
">Academic Registry
</option><option value="Admin
">Admin

.. and so on. Very messy! Is there a way to prevent it? Ideally I’d like it formatted properly as:

<option value="AACM">AACM</option>
<option value="Academic Registry">Academic Registry</option>

… etc.

Is this possible?

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

echo "<option value=\"".trim($parts[0])."\">".trim($parts[0])."</option>";