I have a txt file with lines in this format
this is a name|this is a type|this is a description
this is a name|this is a type|this is a description
this is a name|this is a type|this is a description
I need to access those lines and echo them like this:
<li type="this is a type" description="this is a description">this is a name</li>
I have no idea how to approach this.
Thanks in advance
Normally I wouldn't write code for you without you having provided an example of what you've tried, but in this case it's pretty basic.
Use PHP's file function to read a file into an array (line by line), then use explode to break that line up:
<?php
$contents = file('yourfile.txt');
foreach($contents as $eachline) {
list($name, $type, $description) = explode("|", $eachline);
echo '<li type="' . $type . '" description="' . $description . '">' . $name . '</li>';
}
?>
PHP manual: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
The first step is to read every line of the file.
How to read a file line by line in php
After that explode the string by the pipe symbol $out = explode("|", $string);
after that you have an array and you can access the values with $out[0]; for example.
This is easypeasy:
$parts = explode("|", $line);
$out = "<li type='$parts[1]' description='$parts[2]'>$parts[0]</li>"
