PHP/File Directory/Text File Read
Display XML file
<source lang="html4strict">
<?php $xml_string = file_get_contents("contact.xml","rb"); echo $xml_string; ?>
</source>
Read file content with only one command
<source lang="html4strict">
<html> <head> <title>Tip of the day</title> </head> <body>
Tip of the day
<? readfile("tips.txt"); ?>
</body> </html>
</source>
Read in and perform operations on a file line by line
<source lang="html4strict">
<? $fd = fopen("test.txt", "r"); while(!feof($fd)) {
$line = fgets($fd, 4096);
if(strcmp($line,$targetline) == 0) {
echo "A match was found!";
}
} fclose($fd); ?>
</source>
Read text file into an array in one function
<source lang="html4strict">
<? $line_array = file("test.txt"); echo $line_array[0]; ?>
</source>
Read text file into array and output
<source lang="html4strict">
<?php
$userfile= file_get_contents("./text.txt");
// Place each line of $userfile into array
$users = explode("\n",$userfile);
foreach ($users as $user) {
list($name, $email) = explode(" ", $user);
echo "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$name/a>
";
}
?>
</source>
Read text file with format
<source lang="html4strict">
<?php
$fh = fopen("intData.txt", "r");
/* Parse each SSN in accordance with integer-integer-integer format. */
while ($user = fscanf($fh, "%d-%d-%d")) {
list ($part1,$part2,$part3) = $user;
echo "Social Security: $part1-$part2-$part3
";
}
fclose($fh);
?>
</source>
Try to open a text file
<source lang="html4strict">
<?php
$openfile ="./test.txt";
$result = fopen ($openfile,"r") or die ("Couldn"t open the file");
echo "File opened successfully";
?>
</source>
Viewing the Source of a Document
<source lang="html4strict">
<html> <head> <title>Viewing the source of a document</title> </head> <body> <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF ?>" method="get"> Enter file name (test.txt): <input type="text" name="file" value="<?php print $file; ?>">
<?php if ( isset( $file ) )
show_source( $file ) or print "couldn"t open \"$file\"";
?> </body> </html>
</source>
