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cmnunis
cmnunis

Reputation: 71

Pulling data out from a text file in PHP

I am very new to PHP and am trying to create a basic form. This form has a drop-down list whereby the product is displayed. What I would like for it to do is to display the price, and the city that this product is from.

I have a text file which acts as the data source, and is formatted in this way: 

product | price | city

Code:

<?php

   $file = 'Product1.txt';
   $handle = @fopen($file, 'r');
   if ($handle) {
       while (!feof($handle)) {
           $line = fgets($handle, 4096);
           $item = explode('|', $line);
           echo '<option value="' . $item[0] . '">' . $item[0]. ' '.$item[1]. ' '.$item[2].'</option>' . "\n";
       }
       fclose($handle);      
   }
   ?>



Overall, when I populate my dropdown list, it works fine, and I've extended the page with the hopes of getting more. However, when I try to echo $item[1] or $item[2] at the end of the page, I get nothing.

Can someone show me what I am missing? I've tried looking for tutorials on this matter but to no avail. Thank you.

<?php
echo "<h2>Your Input:</h2>";
echo $name;
echo "<br>";
echo $_POST['D1'];
echo "<br>";
echo $quantity;
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (2)

Cardinal
Cardinal

Reputation: 31

$data = explode(" | ", file_get_contents("data.txt"));

Upvotes: 0

Saqueib
Saqueib

Reputation: 3520

You are not getting anything because $item not in scope

put $itemData = array(); at the top after $handle

   $file = 'Product1.txt';
   $handle = @fopen($file, 'r');
   $itemData = array();
   if ($handle) {
       while (!feof($handle)) {
           $itemData[] = explode('|', $line);
           $line = fgets($handle, 4096);
           $item = explode('|', $line);
           echo '<option value="' . $item[0] . '">' . $item[0]. ' '.$item[1]. ' '.$item[2].'</option>' . "\n";
       }
       fclose($handle);      
   }

its should work

Upvotes: 1

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