php listing from text file

[KickRocksBish]

ok I have a text file that has ids listed each on a new line

 

how can I go about assigning each id to a variable

 

so like

 

12312412

23432443

34654366

56456345

 

the variable $ids = all of the ids above one at a time in an array

 

so like

 

$ids[] = 12312412;

$ids[] = 23432443;

$ids[] = 34654366;

$ids[] = 56456345;

 

 

[salathe]

You could just use the file function to put each line of the file into an item within an array like:

 

$ids = file('your_text_file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

 

The two FILE_*_LINES "flags" are used to trim new lines (which would ordinarily be appended to each item in the array) and to skip any empty lines, respectively.

[KickRocksBish]

<?php

 

$ids = file('ids.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

echo $ids;

?>

 

just echos 'array'

 

how do I assign the ids to the variable?

[salathe]

The ids are assigned to the variable in that code.

 

You just cannot echo an array using echo()... either loop over the values and echo() one at a time, or use print_r/var_dump if you just want to see what $ids contains.

[KickRocksBish]

ahh I see, Thanks sir.. Sorry im such a noob, just learning php