Read lines from text file using PHP

**ak1dnar** · Jun 11 '07, 07:19 AM

Originally posted by Fab108

Hello everyone, i am new here. Hmm...can you all please help me with this..what is the code for reading lines from a text file..Thanks =)

Hi, Fab108 Welcome to TSDN.

Try these Tutorials

**Fab108** · Jun 12 '07, 08:37 AM

Thanks for your help, but fgets help us to get the first line for example my text file is

Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: B108
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237

And i only want to display from Year onwards, how do i do that using fgets?

**ak1dnar** · Jun 12 '07, 09:17 AM

Originally posted by Fab108

Thanks for your help, but fgets help us to get the first line for example my text file is

Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: B108
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237

And i only want to display from Year onwards, how do i do that using fgets?

I didn't ask to use just only the fgets().There were number of tutorials on the search result that i supplied.
And one more thing if you want to read this values from a text file there should be a specific format for each and every record.

example:
[code=text]
Mike Johann | 15-02-2005 | mike@somewhere. com
Jessica Moore | 20-10-2000 | jess@elesewhere .com

[/code]
for better readability.

The format that you have supplied also can read, but its not a god practice for creating a application. Still i can't understand whether it is a single file or a combination. and is this the only record you have?

**r035198x** · Jun 12 '07, 09:37 AM

Originally posted by Fab108

Thanks for your help, but fgets help us to get the first line for example my text file is

Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: B108
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237

And i only want to display from Year onwards, how do i do that using fgets?

Use the gets function then .

**Fab108** · Jun 12 '07, 09:45 AM

Originally posted by ajaxrand

I didn't ask to use just only the fgets().There were number of tutorials on the search result that i supplied.
And one more thing if you want to read this values from a text file there should be a specific format for each and every record.

example:
[code=text]
Mike Johann | 15-02-2005 | mike@somewhere. com
Jessica Moore | 20-10-2000 | jess@elesewhere .com

[/code]
for better readability.

The format that you have supplied also can read, but its not a god practice for creating a application. Still i can't understand whether it is a single file or a combination. and is this the only record you have?

No i got 1891 records..= (..i am new to php that is why i am so vex now..haha

**ak1dnar** · Jun 12 '07, 10:46 AM

Is this the structure of your text file or differ than this?

[CODE=text]Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: B108
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237
Record: 2
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237
Record: 3
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237[/CODE]

And what you meant by saying "year onwards" ?

**Fab108** · Jun 13 '07, 02:23 AM

Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: Data Logger
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237
Latitude: 1.342335
Longitude: 103.776921
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======
Record: 2
Event Type: 1
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 42.526936
Latitude: 1.342367
Longitude: 103.776861
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======
Record: 3
Event Type: 1
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 47.526634
Latitude: 1.342375
Longitude: 103.776858
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======

This is the text file, from record 1, all the way to 1891.

**ak1dnar** · Jun 13 '07, 04:20 AM

text.txt
[CODE=text]
Datalogs:
Date: 2007/6/11
Time: 13:9:3
Device ID: Data Logger
About total Numbers: 001891
=============== ====
=============== ======
Record: 1
Event Type: 3
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 37.527237
Latitude: 1.342335
Longitude: 103.776921
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======
Record: 2
Event Type: 1
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 42.526936
Latitude: 1.342367
Longitude: 103.776861
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======
Record: 3
Event Type: 1
Year: 2007
Month: 6
Day: 7
Hour: 5
Minute: 9
Second: 47.526634
Latitude: 1.342375
Longitude: 103.776858
Altitude: 0.000000
PDOP: 50.000000
HDOP: 50.000000
Satellite No: 3
Speed(KMs/hr): 0.000000
Direction: 0.000000
=============== ======
[/CODE]

Try to modify this script as per your requirement.
read_text.php
[CODE=php]
<?php
$filename = "text.txt";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$contents = fread ($fd,filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

$delimiter = "============== =======";
$splitcontents = explode($delimi ter, $contents);

foreach( $splitcontents as $record )
{

echo "$record<hr >";
}

?>
[/CODE]

**Fab108** · Jun 13 '07, 08:50 AM

Thanks a lot, if i have anymore problem, i will pm you..= )

**ak1dnar** · Jun 13 '07, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by Fab108

Thanks a lot, if i have anymore problem, i will pm you..= )

Glad to hear that, Fab108 !
You are welcome ! anytime.
-Ajaxrand

**r035198x** · Jun 13 '07, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by Fab108

Thanks a lot, if i have anymore problem, i will pm you..= )

Unfortunately we don't allow technical questions to be asked through PMs. we prefer it for them to be posted here where we all can learn from them.

Sorry for being a spoil sport but those are the rules.

**ak1dnar** · Jun 13 '07, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by r035198x

Unfortunately we don't allow technical questions to be asked through PMs. we prefer it for them to be posted here where we all can learn from them.

Sorry for being a spoil sport but those are the rules.

Its my mistake, i really forgot to mention that in my last post.

Do NOT PM questions to individual Experts, Moderators or Administrators

Sorry r035198x.

**Fab108** · Jun 15 '07, 01:36 AM

Ok i understand, haha i will post my questions if i have any = ) thanks a lot.

**Fab108** · Jun 19 '07, 09:55 AM

Ok..i got a new problem. After i read the lines, how i convert the data and put into a database?

Read lines from text file using PHP

Read lines from text file using PHP

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