Making the values of a drop down the values of a txt

Question

i need some help going line by line in a text file then making those lines the values for a drop down box, here is what i have got so far but i don't think this is close to correct. Any help would be great Thanks

  <?php 
    $filename = 'data/names.txt';
    $nameContents = file($filename);
    ?>

<form>
    <select id="value">
        <option selected value="base">Please Select</option>
        <?php foreach($nameContents as $line){  ?> <option"><?php $line ?></option> ?> <?php } ?>
    </select>
</div>

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13246597/how-to-read-a-large-file-line-by-line — wedstrom, Jun 21 '18 at 22:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '18 at 22:49

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you need to write echo $line

<option"><?php echo $line ?></option> ?>

answered Jun 21 '18 at 22:49

Camilo Andres

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '18 at 22:51

0

For anybody who see's this after, this is the working result i got.

<div>
<form>
    <select id="value">
        <option selected value="base">Please Select</option>
        <?php 
        foreach(file('data/names.txt') as $line) { ?>
            <option><?php echo $line ?></option>
        <?php } ?>

    </select>
</div>

answered Jun 21 '18 at 22:51

mattoakley

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3

which is basicly the same as @camiloAndres.... answer. There was nothing wrong with the file read (because you didn't really change that), but you only missed the echo – Jeff Jun 21 '18 at 23:03

Making the values of a drop down the values of a txt

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