Create HTML table from multiple lines of strings - php

Question

I want to take a text file formatted like so:
*note I can change the format of the stored messages, basically there are delimiters and different lines
;68.229.164.10:4/5/2013:Hello
;71.73.174.13:4/6/2013:Oh Hey
(;IPADDRESS:TIMESTAMP:MESSAGE)
and put it in a table that looks like so:
IP Time Message
68.229.164.10 4/6/2013 Hello
71.73.174.13 4/6/2013 Oh Hey

Answer 1

I prefer to use something like the following:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php
And then format the output accordingly.
From Example 1 on the above referenced page:
<?php
$row = 1;
if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";
}
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>
so, you could do something like this...
<?php
$row = 1;
if (($handle = fopen("path_to_your_data_file", "r")) !== FALSE) {
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr><td></td>IP<td>Time</td><td>Message</td></tr>';
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ":")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
$row++;
if ($num > 2) {
echo '<tr>';
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
echo '<td>'.$data[$c].'</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';
}
}
echo '</table>';
fclose($handle);
}
?>

Answer 2

$a=";68.229.164.10:4/5/2013:Hello
;71.73.174.13:4/6/2013:Oh Hey";
preg_match_all('{;(.*?):(.*?):(.*)}',$a,$d);
//set th
$d[0][0]='IP';
$d[0][1]='TIME';
$d[0][2]='Message';
$table = '<table>'.PHP_EOL;
foreach($d AS $tr){
$row = PHP_EOL;
foreach($tr AS $td){
$row .= "<td>{$td}</td>".PHP_EOL;
}
$table .= "<tr>{$row}</tr>".PHP_EOL;
}
$table .= "</table>".PHP_EOL;
echo $table;