[SOLVED] get content from a file, and echo to site

[warptwist]

I need a way to hold some data in a file and when needed, echo a speific section of the file to my site.

Is there a way to do this?

 

example:

 

"dataholder.txt"

 

// this is the first section
I have some data here.
a bit more here.
// this is the seond section
this data is for another page on my site.

 

on the first page of my site I want to be able to echo the first section of "dataholder.txt", an on multiple other pages it should be the second section that gets echoed.

[Adam]

It perfectly possible, but you'd need some kind of delimiter to determine when one section starts and another begins. Can be anything really..

 

blah blah this is section 1

// NEW_SECTION

blah blah this is section 2

 

Then you can use explode() to explode the contents by "// NEW_SECTION" and echo out the right section.

 

A quick example:

 

<?php

$text = file_get_contents("dataholder.txt");
$sections = explode("// NEW_SECTION", $text);

echo $sections[0]; // section 1
echo $sections[1]; // section 2

?>

 

Adam

[warptwist]

Nice, Thanks

[warptwist]

The way it shows up on my site is in 1 continous string. Can I get it to show exactly as written in the txt file (linebreaks), so a multiline text in the txt file would show up as multiline on the page.

[Adam]

Yeah use:

 

$text = str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text);

[warptwist]

again thx MrAdam.

[JasonLewis]

Have a look at nl2br.