The numbers in my file are 5X5:
13456
23789
14789
09678
45678
I'm trying to put it into this form
array[0]{13456}
array[1]{23789}
array[2]{14789}
array[3]{09678}
array[4]{45678}
My code is:
$fileName = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
//Throw an error message if the file could not be open
$file = fopen($fileName,"r") or exit("Unable to open file!");
while ($line = fgets($file)) {
$digits .= trim($line);
$members = explode("\n", str_replace(array("\r\n","\n\r","\r"),"\n",$digits));
echo $members;
The output I'm getting is this:
ArrayArrayArrayArrayArray
fgets gets a line from the file pointer, so theoretically there should be no "\r" or "\n" characters in $line. explode will still work, even if the delimiter is not found. You'll just end up with an array with one item, the entire string. You can't echo an array, though. (That's why you're seeing Array for each line; it's the best PHP can do when you use echo on an array.)
If I were you, I would rather just use file() instead.
$members = array_map('trim', file($fileName, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES));
With the example file you showed, this should result in
$members = ['13456', '23789', '14789', '09678', '45678'];
You can simply put the lines into an array and use print_r instead of echo to print that array
while ($line = fgets($file)) {
$members[] = $line;
}
print_r($members);
It should depend on the file that you are dealing with.
FileType:
text -> fgets($file)
CSV -> fgetcsv($file)
I'm trying to make a simple news hit counter with PHP and text file. i wrote a simple code to check and read the file:
Text File:
//Data in Source File
//Info: News-ID|Hits|Date
1|32|2013-9-25
2|241|2013-9-26
3|57|2013-9-27
PHP File:
//Get Source
$Source = ENGINE_DIR . '/data/top.txt';
$Read = file($Source);
//Add New Record
foreach($Read as $News){
//Match News ID
if($News[0] == "2"){
//Add New Record and Update the Text File
}
}
Problem is i can't change the news hits! For example, i need change hits from second line from 241 to 242 and write it again in to the txt file.
I searched in this site and Google and tried some ways but i couldn't fix that.
At the least, you're forgetting to write the increment back to the file. Also, you're going to want to parse each row into columns you can work with (delimited by a pipe |).
Untested code, but the idea is:
$Source = ENGINE_DIR . '/data/top.txt'; // you already have this line
$Read = file($Source); // and this one
foreach ( $Read as $LineNum => $News ) { // iterate through each line
$NewsParts = explode('|',$News); // expand the line into pieces to work with
if ( $NewsParts[0] == 2 ) { // if the first column is 2
$NewsParts[1]++; // increment the second column
$Read[$LineNum] = implode('|',$NewsParts); // glue the line back together, we're updating the Read array directly, rather than the copied variable $News
break; // we're done so exit the loop, saving cycles
}
}
$UpdatedContents = implode(PHP_EOL,$Read); // put the read lines back together (remember $Read as been updated) using "\n" or "\r\n" whichever is best for the OS you're running on
file_put_contents($Source,$UpdatedContents); // overwrite the file
You could read the file and do something like this:
//Get Source
$Source = ENGINE_DIR . '/data/top.txt';
$Read = file($Source);
$News = array();
foreach ($Read as $line) {
list($id, $views, $date) = explode('|', $line);
$News[$id] = array(
'id' => $id,
'views' => $views,
'date' => $date,
);
}
At this point you have the array $News which contains every news item and you can change them as you wish (example: $News[2]['views'] = 242;).
The only thing you're missing now is the writing back to the file part, which is also easy.
$fh = fopen(ENGINE_DIR . '/data/top.txt', 'w'); //'w' mode opens the file for write and truncates it
foreach ($News as $item) {
fwrite($fh, $item['id'] . '|' . $item['views'] . '|' . $item['date'] . "\n");
}
fclose($fh);
And that's it! :)
I have an issue with writing and reading to text file.
I have to first write from a text file to another text file some values which I need to read again. Below are the code snippets:
Write to text file:
$fp = #fopen ("text1.txt", "r");
$fh = #fopen("text2.txt", 'a+');
if ($fp) {
//for each line in file
while(!feof($fp)) {
//push lines into array
$thisline = fgets($fp);
$thisline1 = trim($thisline);
$stringData = $thisline1. "\r\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fwrite($fh, "test");
}
}
fclose($fp);
fclose($fh);
Read from the written textfile
$page = join("",file("text2.txt"));
$kw = explode("\n", $page);
for($i=0;$i<count($kw);$i++){
echo rtrim($kw[$i]);
}
But, if I am not mistaken due to the "/r/n" I used to insert the newline, when I am reading back, there are issues and I need to pass the read values from only the even lines to a function to perform other operations.
How do I resolve this issue? Basically, I need to write certain values to a textfile and then read only the values from the even lines.
I'm not sure whether you have issues with the even line numbers or with reading the file back in.
Here is the solution for the even line numbers.
$page = join("",file("text2.txt"));
$kw = explode("\n", $page);
for($i=0;$i<count($kw);$i++){
$myValue = rtrim($kw[$i]);
if(i % 2 == 0)
{
echo $myValue;
}
}
I am very new to php, and i have search and put together this script to convert text to csv and write the out put on the file.
$File = "/var/apache2/htdocs/loginS/host.txt";
$Handle = fopen($File,"r");
$Content = fread ($Handle,filesize ($File));
fclose($File);
fclose($Handle);
$Content = explode("\t", $Content);
foreach($Content as $Value) {
//echo $Value."|"; // till this line working
fwrite($save, $Value);
fclose($save);
}
the problem is when I try to write on the file. I got only one line.what is my error.
You are calling fclose() on the file in your loop that is writing records. fclose() closes the file handle so it is no longer valid and cannot be written to.
Move fclose($save); after the } that ends the foreach() with your content.
Also, you could simplify things a bit by calling $Content = file_get_contents($File); since that is what you are doing in effect with fread(). Also, since $File is just a string variable, calling fclose() on it is unnecessary and doesn't do anything. You were correctly closing it by calling fclose() on $Handle. But using file_get_contents() will eliminate the need for both. The only file you would need is the one you were writing to.
Here is an example using the file() function which reads each line of a file into an array.
$file = '/var/apache2/htdocs/loginS/host.txt';
$content = file($file);
$save = fopen('./out.csv', 'w+');
foreach($content as $line) {
$line = rtrim($line, "\r\n"); // remove the newline from $line
$parts = explode("\t", $line);
$lineCsv = implode('|', $parts); // or ',' ?
fwrite($save, $lineCsv . "\n"); // write output to file
}
fclose($save);
I'm using fputcsv in PHP to output a comma-delimited file of a database query. When opening the file in gedit in Ubuntu, it looks correct - each record has a line break (no visible line break characters, but you can tell each record is separated,and opening it in OpenOffice spreadsheet allows me to view the file correctly.)
However, we're sending these files on to a client on Windows, and on their systems, the file comes in as one big, long line. Opening it in Excel, it doesn't recognize multiple lines at all.
I've read several questions on here that are pretty similar, including this one, which includes a link to the really informative Great Newline Schism explanation.
Unfortunately, we can't just tell our clients to open the files in a "smarter" editor. They need to be able to open them in Excel. Is there any programmatic way to ensure that the correct newline characters are added so the file can be opened in a spreadsheet program on any OS?
I'm already using a custom function to force quotes around all values, since fputcsv is selective about it. I've tried doing something like this:
function my_fputcsv($handle, $fieldsarray, $delimiter = "~", $enclosure ='"'){
$glue = $enclosure . $delimiter . $enclosure;
return fwrite($handle, $enclosure . implode($glue,$fieldsarray) . $enclosure."\r\n");
}
But when the file is opened in a Windows text editor, it still shows up as a single long line.
// Writes an array to an open CSV file with a custom end of line.
//
// $fp: a seekable file pointer. Most file pointers are seekable,
// but some are not. example: fopen('php://output', 'w') is not seekable.
// $eol: probably one of "\r\n", "\n", or for super old macs: "\r"
function fputcsv_eol($fp, $array, $eol) {
fputcsv($fp, $array);
if("\n" != $eol && 0 === fseek($fp, -1, SEEK_CUR)) {
fwrite($fp, $eol);
}
}
This is an improved version of #John Douthat's great answer, preserving the possibility of using custom delimiters and enclosures and returning fputcsv's original output:
function fputcsv_eol($handle, $array, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"', $eol = "\n") {
$return = fputcsv($handle, $array, $delimiter, $enclosure);
if($return !== FALSE && "\n" != $eol && 0 === fseek($handle, -1, SEEK_CUR)) {
fwrite($handle, $eol);
}
return $return;
}
Using the php function fputcsv writes only \n and cannot be customized. This makes the function worthless for microsoft environment although some packages will detect the linux newline also.
Still the benefits of fputcsv kept me digging into a solution to replace the newline character just before sending to the file. This can be done by streaming the fputcsv to the build in php temp stream first. Then adapt the newline character(s) to whatever you want and then save to file. Like this:
function getcsvline($list, $seperator, $enclosure, $newline = "" ){
$fp = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');
fputcsv($fp, $list, $seperator, $enclosure );
rewind($fp);
$line = fgets($fp);
if( $newline and $newline != "\n" ) {
if( $line[strlen($line)-2] != "\r" and $line[strlen($line)-1] == "\n") {
$line = substr_replace($line,"",-1) . $newline;
} else {
// return the line as is (literal string)
//die( 'original csv line is already \r\n style' );
}
}
return $line;
}
/* to call the function with the array $row and save to file with filehandle $fp */
$line = getcsvline( $row, ",", "\"", "\r\n" );
fwrite( $fp, $line);
As webbiedave pointed out (thx!) probably the cleanest way is to use a stream filter.
It is a bit more complex than other solutions, but even works on streams that are not editable after writing to them (like a download using $handle = fopen('php://output', 'w'); )
Here is my approach:
class StreamFilterNewlines extends php_user_filter {
function filter($in, $out, &$consumed, $closing) {
while ( $bucket = stream_bucket_make_writeable($in) ) {
$bucket->data = preg_replace('/([^\r])\n/', "$1\r\n", $bucket->data);
$consumed += $bucket->datalen;
stream_bucket_append($out, $bucket);
}
return PSFS_PASS_ON;
}
}
stream_filter_register("newlines", "StreamFilterNewlines");
stream_filter_append($handle, "newlines");
fputcsv($handle, $list, $seperator, $enclosure);
...
alternatively, you can output in native unix format (\n only) then run unix2dos on the resulting file to convert to \r\n in the appropriate places. Just be careful that your data contains no \n's . Also, I see you are using a default separator of ~ . try a default separator of \t .
I've been dealing with a similiar situation. Here's a solution I've found that outputs CSV files with windows friendly line-endings.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fputcsv.php#90883
I wasn't able to use the since I'm trying to stream a file to the client and can't use the fseeks.
windows needs \r\n as the linebreak/carriage return combo in order to show separate lines.
I did eventually get an answer over at experts-exchange; here's what worked:
function my_fputcsv($handle, $fieldsarray, $delimiter = "~", $enclosure ='"'){
$glue = $enclosure . $delimiter . $enclosure;
return fwrite($handle, $enclosure . implode($glue,$fieldsarray) . $enclosure.PHP_EOL);
}
to be used in place of standard fputcsv.