Using 'list' to list out variables from .txt file
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:23 am
So I have created a flatfile script where I store text data into a .txt file-format database instead of using MySQL. I'm planning on listing out the contents of that .txt file, which is formatted to appear like so:
1\¦Lines of text here\¦IP address\¦
2\¦Lines of text here\¦IP address\¦
The first 'segment' is the ID, as in the numerical order of the text stored. The second part is where the text information is submitted via user input and then stored into the .txt database. The third part is the user's IP address.
So then my list function goes something like this:
It lists out the information from my .txt file (DATABASE) using this function:
Now the list and function thing works fine because I'm able to echo out individual 'segments' separately. Say if I want to echo out the user submitted data, then I just go and the corrrect info appears. But then the problem is, I can't echo out every single line in the database. If I do the echo data thing, I can only echo out the data from the first row (ID no.1). This probably has something to do with the way the function is coded but I'm not that familiar with PHP yet so I don't know how to tweak so it can echo out the data from every single row.
Does anyone know what I can modify to make it work?
1\¦Lines of text here\¦IP address\¦
2\¦Lines of text here\¦IP address\¦
The first 'segment' is the ID, as in the numerical order of the text stored. The second part is where the text information is submitted via user input and then stored into the .txt database. The third part is the user's IP address.
So then my list function goes something like this:
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list($id, $data, $ip) = getRow(DATABASE)Code: Select all
function getRow($file) {
$fd = fopen($file, "r") or die("Can not open file: $file");
$rstr = fread($fd, filesize($file));
fclose($fd);
return explode("\¦", $rstr);
}
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<?php echo $data ?>Does anyone know what I can modify to make it work?