Assign File line to variable

[kalm1234]

I have been looking everywhere but have not found anything.

I need to know how to assign an entire line, of another file, such as line 7 of the file test.txt to a variable in the text.php file.

 

File 1

 

test.php

 

<?php

$myfile = 'test.txt';

$fh = fopen($myfile, 'r');

...

?>

 

File 2

 

test.txt

 

text1

text2

text3

text4

text5

text6

text7

text8

 

Thanks for any help guys...

[The Little Guy]

Try this:

 

$myfile = 'test.txt';
$fh = fopen($myfile, 'r');
$contents = fread($fh,filesize($myfile));

$lines = explode("\n",$contents);
echo $lines[6]; // starts with 0 so use 6 to get line 7

[kalm1234]

Thanks for the fast reply.  Worked like a charm.  Thanks a lot!!!

[DarkWater]

If you're going to be loading the whole file into memory anyway, you might as well shorten that up:

<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$data = file($filename);
echo $data[6];
?>