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Ok. I was hoping to add them together. How would I do it then?

I have the following code and am trying to add the strings together to make a total. The monthup and monthdown strings are extracted from a text file earlier in the script. echo "$monthup <br>"; echo "$monthdown <br>"; $answer = $monthup + $monthdown; echo $answer; It outputs 36809697 565151504 0 The last line should be the other 2 added together which equals 601961201 Anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. As you can see I am new to php.

Another option is I could delete everything from the start of the text file up to the username eg. Mathew Then I could delete everything before the monthup'> Then I could delete everything after the first </ and be left with a text file of just the value I want. then take the whole text file and save it as the string value $monthup Does anyone know how to do this? All I can find is how to delete before and after a length in bytes.

Just phoned the web host - they say it has something to do with php5 and i am only able to use php 4 or something like that. Is there no way to use php's built in file reading methods to just search for a specific word and then capture the text between X and Y?

I just read simplexml is a php extension. This is a commercial webhost so i dont think they allow anyone to add extensions - if my thinking of how an extension would work by installing itself into the php server program is right.

Does it work with non-xml files? I dont think this file is proper xml, and the other files that I need to pull information from are csv and plain text files. I would need to pull information from these other files in the same way as i am wanting to do this.

Hi all. I have a text file that looks like the one below. I know how to open the text file but I need to get the php pointer to take a value suck as $username. Once it finds $username, i need it to move to the next following MonthUp"> and then read the number after it and save it to the string $monthup. I will be doing the same for $monthdown and then closing the file. Eg. If the value is $username, i need to find the first occurance of that username, find the number after MonthUp"> and read it to $monthup, then move to MonthDown"> and then read the number after it to $monthdown. I will then use php to add the numbers together so that I can show the user when they enter their username into the website, how much they have used for the month. I am just learning php and all I can find so far from google is reading line-by-line which i want to read after a specific word as I need to do this for a few different files and line by line wont work. File - stats.cfg - can be renamed to stats.txt easily. <config> <list name="UserStats"> <listitem> <variable name="Id">288A5772-2964-4701-9E66-765F3CECE522</variable> <variable name="Name">all users</variable> <variable name="DayUp">32729762</variable> <variable name="DayDown">336451305</variable> <variable name="WeekUp">982718994</variable> <variable name="WeekDown">5711384480</variable> <variable name="MonthUp">15542938381</variable> <variable name="MonthDown">106022753555</variable> <variable name="TotalUp">441879285577</variable> <variable name="TotalDown">1763579705023</variable> <variable name="Since">1210849661</variable> <variable name="Timestamp">1256258234</variable> <variable name="FullName">all users</variable> </listitem> <listitem> <variable name="Id">807459fd-71a9-467d-bf0c-f0ce98fef937</variable> <variable name="Name">Administrator</variable> <variable name="DayUp">0</variable> <variable name="DayDown">0</variable> <variable name="WeekUp">0</variable> <variable name="WeekDown">0</variable> <variable name="MonthUp">0</variable> <variable name="MonthDown">0</variable> <variable name="TotalUp">995621942</variable> <variable name="TotalDown">6089875753</variable> <variable name="Since">1210849662</variable> <variable name="Timestamp">1256224866</variable> <variable name="FullName"></variable> </listitem> <listitem> <variable name="Id">9cd97dd4-f902-4811-ad05-372658c8ec64</variable> <variable name="Name">Mathew</variable> <variable name="DayUp">0</variable> <variable name="DayDown">0</variable> <variable name="WeekUp">0</variable> <variable name="WeekDown">0</variable> <variable name="MonthUp">36809697</variable> <variable name="MonthDown">565151504</variable> <variable name="TotalUp">1739819196</variable> <variable name="TotalDown">26628701150</variable> <variable name="Since">1210849662</variable> <variable name="Timestamp">1256257815</variable> <variable name="FullName">mathew</variable> </listitem>