print names

[mra]

hi ive got a code but its not working it meant to pick out 3 names with their drinks out of 20 names and drinks but it doesnt seem to print out this is wat ive done so far
<?php
$page = file(‘drinkz.txt’);
print "Jim, Peter, Abigail"

[obsidian]

[quote author=mra link=topic=117418.msg479024#msg479024 date=1165322052]
hi ive got a code but its not working it meant to pick out 3 names with their drinks out of 20 names and drinks but it doesnt seem to print out this is wat ive done so far
<?php
$page = file(‘drinkz.txt’);
print "Jim, Peter, Abigail"
[/quote]

What you have so far is going to pull the text of "drinkz.txt" in as an array, but then, you're not doing anything with it. What is the structure of your "drinkz.txt" file? If we know that, we'll be able to better help you pull what you're after. A print statement simply prints out what is in your string, so you'll get "Jim, Peter, Abigail" out on the screen.

[wata]

so how exactly am i ment to print out the names this is first time im doing this so could u be more basic to me please

[obsidian]

As I said, we must know the layout of your "drinkz.txt" file before we can help you print out the names. Can you give us an example of how your file is laid out?

[wata]

the drinks are in a list e.g.
mra, coke
mrb, fanta
etc

this is wat ive done so far now

<?php
$lines = file(‘drinks.txt’);
$n=0
while($n<sizeof($lines)) {
$searchlines=$lines[$n];
print "searchline <br>";
$n=$n+1;

[wata]

any one??????????????????

[craygo]

ok, help us out here by copying and pasting a few lines of the text file. we cannot help without the format of the file.

Ray

[wata]

these are the names in a txt file and i wanna print out only jim, Peter and Abigail

Dilal,coke
Haleema,fanta
Nosheen,tango
Waseem,coke
Rabi,pepsi
Vaseem,tango
Luke,fanta
Noreen,coke
Peter,pepsi
Christopher,tango
Jim,coke
Ebrahim,fanta
Sambo,fanta
Andrew,pepsi
Abigail,cola
Kemal,tango

[craygo]

ok here is something you could use
[code]<?php
// read file into an array
$lines = file('drinks.txt');
// create array for new data
$data=array();
// loop through each line
foreach($lines as $val){
// break up each line by the comma
$line = explode(",", $val);
// make name the key and the drink the value
$data[$line[0]] = $line[1];
}
// now you have an array called data now you can use is any way you like
foreach($data as $name => $drink){
echo "$name: $drink<br>\n";
}
?>[/code]

Ray