[SOLVED] File parsing a line from other server.

[cgimusic]

I guess this is a lot of questions but it is all for one thing I am trying to accomplish. I basically want to get line 49 from a document on a remote server, save it as a variable then run something like a find and replace on that variable and save it as another variable and echo it. The only code I have so far is:

 

<?php
$file = implode('', file('http://server/dir/file.xml'));
echo $file
?>

 

Can anyone help me. I'm still quite new to this.

[wildteen88]

Do:

$file = file('http://server/dir/file.xml');

echo $file[48]; // line 49

 

file() returns an array of each line in the file.

[cgimusic]

Do:

$file = file('http://server/dir/file.xml');

echo $file[48]; // line 49

 

file() returns an array of each line in the file.

 

Great, thanks. I was trying that earlier but I didn't realize that you had to put the number down one. Does anyone have any idea to do something along the lines of a find and replace?

[wildteen88]

Remembers arrays start at 0 not 1.

 

PHP has a number of functions on text manipulation. What are you trying to find and replace? Can you give an example.

[cgimusic]

Actually I managed to work it out. I used str_ireplace. Thanks for your help.