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[timmah1]

how do you format a text file to be read by php?

 

I have a text file with random words

"aureate"\n;
"deism"\n;
"ganger"\n;
"graphoidea"\n;
"imbecility"\n;
"jollity"\n;
"keenness"\n;
"lipotype"\n;
"nimiety"\n;
"oldwomanish"\n;
"purveyance"\n;
"refocillation"\n;
"scaphoid"\n;
"sententious"\n;
"tumefying"\n;
"unforbidden"\n;
"unmade"\n;
"unretracted"\n;
"withers"\n;
"wittiness"\n;
"antevert"\n;
"beetlehead"\n;
"better"\n;
"brickcolored"\n;
"chastened"\n;
"divers"\n;
"extenuated"\n;
"funicular"\n;
"miserly"\n;
"potluck"\n;
"prodromous"\n;
"rappee"\n;
"scintilla"\n;
"serosity"\n;
"subjugate"\n;
"superexcellence"\n;
"tippet"\n;
"trituration"\n;
"unculpable"\n;
"untired"\n;

 

I have a script that is suppose to pull only one of those words out, but the problem is, it's pulling all of them out.

Here is my php script

$filename = "./random.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
$words = explode("\r", $contents);
$temp_pass =  $words[rand(0, count($words)-1)];

 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks is advance

[Northern Flame]

in your explode() function you are telling it to look for /r

when it should be looking for \n

[timmah1]

Thank you

That fixed it.

 

But now what's being show is this

 

"serosity"\n;

 

Instead of just the word. Do I need to take out the " in the txt file?

[timmah1]

Nevermind, got it fixed.

 

Thank you for your help, it's really appreciated.

[trq]

Is that exactly what your text file looks like? Can you change the format so it is simply each word on a seperate line? They do not need quotes or \n chars.

 

ps: Code wise, I would simply use...

 

<?php

 $words = file('./randomtext.txt');
 $temp_pass = $words[rand(0,count($words)-1)];

?>

[timmah1]

That is much simpler, thank you thorpe!