Importing from a txt file

[kristen252]

I am very new to php, but I am trying to use the following code to import data from a txt file that is saved on my server:

 

<?php

$filename="totals.txt";

$handle=fopen($filename,"r");

 

$contents=fread

($handle,filesize($filename));

 

echo($contents);

?>

 

The problem is that code imports the whole file- is there any way to import only part of the file?  Say the last part of the first line?  The txt file is generated by a form on my website and the form is automatically placing the persons ip address and I don't want that to show on our site.

 

Or maybe I'm just going about this the wrong way and there is a form you can use in php to allow the visitor to your site to post to a certain page on your site?

 

Any help or direction you could provide would be appreciated!  As I mentioned, I'm very new at this, but I would like to learn!

[.josh]

whole file is being retrieved because you are using fread, which returns x bytes length of data, and you are requesting info of filesize($filename) length (the whole file). 

 

show an example of the file contents, and what part you want retrieved from it.

[scarhand]

you need to explode the file contents into an array by using "\n" (which means linebreak) as a delimiter

 

that way you can work with the array instead of the entire file as a string

[kristen252]

This is the text in the file:

 

|2009-03-16 14:46:20|208.101.115.25|One-time: 50|Monthly: 500|

 

I only want to import from "One-time" to the end of "500".

 

Thanks for the help!

[jlhaslip]

Read the line, explode the line on the pipe (|), but only handle (print) the last 2 elements of the line.