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I am new at php and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I am trying to list all the records from a txt file. However, my code is only displaying the first line. How can I get the code to display all the records from the file?
$count = 0;
$soldOut = 0;
$eventFile = fopen("performances.txt", "r");
$event = fgets($eventFile);
while ( feof($eventFile));
{
list ($dateEvent, $performer, $ticketprice, $status) = explode(":", $event);
if($status == "Yes")
{
$status = "Tickets are still available";
$count = $status +1;
}
else
{
$status = "***SOLD OUT***";
$soldOut = $status +1;
}
print("<tr><td>$dateEvent </td>");
print("<td>$performer </td>");
print("<td>$ticketprice </td>");
print("<td>$status</td></tr>");
$event = fgets($eventFile);
}

Answer 1

Pay attention to the docs, you'll notice that your loop should be:
while( !feof($eventFile)) {
$event = fgets($eventFile); // THIS is where you get the current line
// do stuff here
}

Answer 2

you can read file this way. You can find more on this http://us1.php.net/function.file-get-contents
<?php
$data = file_get_contents("performances.txt",FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH); //read the file
$convert = explode(":", $data); //create array separate by new line
for ($i=0;$i<count($convert);$i++)
{
echo $convert[$i].', '; //write value by index
}
?>

Answer 3

Looping as instructed at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php
Basically, keep looping until fgets nolonger returns anything, and then check if pointer matches with end of file.
I also suggest you take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-get-line.php
the comments make a case for performance gains.
$count = $soldOut = 0;
$eventFile = fopen("performances.txt", "r");
if ($eventFile) {
# Keep reading as long as fgets returns content
while ( ($event = fgets($eventFile)) !== false ) {
list ($dateEvent, $performer, $ticketprice, $status) = explode(":", $event);
if($status == "Yes") {
$status = "Tickets are still available";
++$count; # increase count with one
} else {
$status = "***SOLD OUT***";
++$soldOut; # increase soldout with one
}
echo '<tr>',
'<td>',$dateEvent,'</td>',
'<td>',$performer,'</td>',
'<td>',$ticketprice,'</td>',
'<td>',$status,'</td>',
'</tr>';
}
# something went wrong
if (!feof($eventFile)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
# remember to close them files
fclose($eventFile);
} else {
# failed to open
}