select line from a file

[superpimp]

How do I select a line from a file? If I have a file like this:

[code]
hello
hi
test
etc...
[/code]

I want to select like "hello" and "hi", ... as seperate text.

I tried this:

[code]
<?php
$file=file('file.txt');
$count=count($file);
$random=rand(0,$count);
echo $file[$random];
?>
[/code]

but that doesnt work...

thx!

[ober]

I think that's mostly correct, but you have to specify a path to the file.

[superpimp]

Like file('c:\test\file.txt'); ?

[ober]

Correct, but relative to your webserver... not the c drive.

[superpimp]

well, the file is in the same path as then .php file, so actually I shouldn't specfy a path...

[ober]

[code]$file=file('test.txt');
$count=count($file);
$random=rand(0,$count-1);
echo $file[$random];[/code]

Color me wrong... you don't have to specify a path.

The above works for me.

[superpimp]

well, it sucks. that doesnt work. its very weird, i've added extra things, that work in other scripts but they wont work here, grrr. I even tried your code, doenst work either :(

[code]
$file=file('test.txt');
$file2=file_get_contents("test.txt");
$filecontents = file_get_contents("test.txt");
$count=count($file);
$random=rand(0,$count-1);
echo $file[$random];
echo $file2;
echo $filecontents;
[/code]

this gives a blank screen :( What am I doing wrong???

edit: THANKS, I found the error :)

[kenrbnsn]

You're code looks fine. What's in the file?

Ken

[superpimp]

the problem was I opened with <? instead of <?php
stupid mistake...