[SOLVED] Trying to open sessions while in a loop

[jacobsdad]

I know I should be using a database ... but ... I have created a few pages which store user data in text files.  The user text files where created using session_encode. There is a text file for each user.  There is a masterloggin.txt that contains all of the names of the individual text files.  I can loop through an array created from masterlogin.txt and create hyperlinks to each of the individual text files, but what I would like to do is while I am looping through the array I would like to open a session for each file, take out the names of the user so that I can have the hyperlink be Lastname, Firstname instead of the name of the text file.

[code]
<?php
session_start();

// file example 1: read a text file into an array, with
// each line in a new element

$filename="masterlogin.txt";
$lines = array();
$file = fopen($filename, "r");
while(!feof($file)) {

    //read file line by line into a new array element
    $lines[] = fgets($file, 4096);
 
}
fclose ($file);

//sort and creating variable for items in the array.
sort($lines);
$c = count($lines);

//loop to print out hyperlink for each text file.
for($i=0; $i<=$c; $i++)
{

$sessionfile = fopen($lines[$i], "r");
session_decode(fgets($sessionfile,  4096) );
fclose($sessionfile);

print "<a href=\"/php/".$lines[$i]."\">".$Lastname.", ".$Firstname."</a><br />";

}

//Create button to add more users

echo "<input type=\"button\" ";
echo "value=\"Create Another User\" ";
echo "onclick=\"location.href='loggin.html'\">";

?>
[/code]

[jacobsdad]

Just wondering if I have placed this question in the correct forum ... thanks for the help ...

Michael

[dbo]

So what is the problem exactly? You want to know how to assign your Username and Password variables in the code you displayed below?

[jacobsdad]

I am trying to loop through all of the names of txt files in the masterlogin.txt file. I want to pull out the firstname and lastname of the users that created the file so that I can generate hyperlinks to those txt files.  In the code that I have written the echo $lines[$i] will print out all of the titles inside the masterlogin file as LastnameFirstname.txt .  If I take one of those text files and put it into the fopen argument that will create a hyperlink Lastname, Firstname for that particular user.  It seems that the $lines[$i] is not putting the LastnameFirstname.txt into the fopen argument.

[jacobsdad]

I figured out what was causing my problem.  While the variables that where created by the loop looked identical to the name of the text files they where not.  Adding [color=red]trim([/color]$lines[$i][color=red])[/color] to make sure the text file names did not have any spaces or newlines has put me on the right track.

[dbo]

Grats on finding it. Sorry I wasn't able to be anymore help.