[SOLVED] lines in a .txt file

[snk]

Hello,

 

I would like to know how can I read lines from a txt file? I use the below code but i get a blank page.

<?php
$handle = @fopen('stathis.txt', "r");
if ($handle) {
   while (!feof($handle)) {
       $line[] = fgets($handle, 4096);
   }
   fclose($handle);
}
for ($i = 0; $i <= sizeof($line); $i++){
echo $line[i];
} //for
?>

 

when i echo sizeof($line); I get 1776 which is the number of lines in my file, but why i dont get any results? any help?

thanks in advance

[Moon-Man.net]

Try this and let me know the result:

 

<?php
$handle = @fopen('stathis.txt', "r");
if ($handle) {
   while (!feof($handle)) {
       $line[] = fgets($handle, 4096);
   }
   fclose($handle);
}

print_r($line);

?>

 

[snk]

thank you for the reply, the result is

 

Array ( [0] => ��a�1�2�3� ������� ���������� �-� ������������ � � [1] => �a�1�7� �������� ��������� �-� ������ � � [2] => �a�_�e�v�a�g�e�l� ��������������� ���������� �-� ������������ � � [3] => .......

 

going to the end.

[laffin]

look closely

for ($i = 0; $i <= sizeof($line); $i++){

echo $line[i];

 

shud be

for ($i = 0; $i <= sizeof($line); $i++){

echo $line[$i];

 

[Moon-Man.net]

print_r($array) prints out an array, from start to finish. Now what is displayed on your page, is funnily enough, the content of $line.

 

OK, providing "��a�1�2�3� ������� ���������� �-� ������������ � � " is the first line, and "�a�1�7� �������� ��������� �-� ������ � � " the second and so on so forth, this is good.

 

Have a look at the foreach statement, it is a much better way of looping through array's...

http://au.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

 

You should replace your `for` statement with this:

 

foreach ($line as $single_line) {
    echo $single_line ."<br>\n";
}

 

You should then get what ever is in stathis.txt printed to your page....

 

Does stathis.txt actually contain all that crap?

[snk]

it works like a charm.. thank you very much. the funny characters caused because my php uses utf8 and i saved the txt as  Unicode. I use a non English language inside.

 

Thank you again, you were very... "explainful"