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Help me parse this file with PHP
I need to extract some text from a text file.suppose there is a text file in http://site.com/a.txt
And the contents of that file is like this:
var $name= 'name1';
var $age= 'age2';
var $phone= 'phonenumber';
var $a= 'asd';
var $district= 'district23';
How can I get the values of this text file (name1,age2,phonenumber,asd,district) in separate echo.

Answer 1

Use the file function to read the file into an array. Then loop through the array and each line in the file will be another element in the array. So make sure your file has line-breasks between the data.
Of course the best would be to have ready PHP code in a .php file which would then be included with the include function.

Answer 2

Organize the content of your text file like this : name1,age2,phonenumber,asd,district
And do this :
// Get the content of your file
$content = file_get_contents('a.text');
// Set your values with this
list($name, $age, $phone, $a, $district) = explode(',', $content);
// Then feel free to echo wathever you want
echo 'Name ' . $name;

Answer 3

Use an array and encode it: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

Answer 4

I recommend using a class to encapsulate your data...
So imagine having a file called "person.php" that looks like this...
class Person
{
public $Name;
public $Age;
public $Phone;
public $A;
public $District;
}
You can then use the person class as a container.
include_once('person.php');
$person = new Person();
$person->Name = 'John Doe';
$person->Age = 52;
$person->Phone= '[phone]';
$person->A = 'asd';
$person->District = 'District23';
Please note that "Age" is volatile (i.e. if the object lives for too long, the age will wrong!) You could avoid this by storing date of birth and then having a getAge() function on the Person object that gives you the correct age at any point in time.
The Person class is a plain PHP object, but you could add functions that add behaviour that relates to the concept of a Person, so the getAge() function would live on the Person class.
Finally, you could then store the object wherever you like using PHP's serialize and unserialize functions. The stored string that represents your object would look like this:
O:6:"Person":5:{
s:4:"Name";s:8:"John Doe";
s:3:"Age";i:52;
s:5:"Phone";s:15:"[phone]";
s:1:"A";s:3:"asd";
s:8:"District";s:10:"District23";
}
And here is how you serialize the $person to look like this:
$serializedPerson = serialize($person);
echo $serializedPerson;
And converting from a string back to a Person is easy too:
$serializedPerson = 'O:6:"Person":5:{s:4:"Name";s:8:"John Doe";s:3:"Age";i:52;s:5:"Phone";s:15:"[phone]";s:1:"A";s:3:"asd";s:8:"District";s:10:"District23";}';
$newPerson = unserialize($serializedPerson);
echo $newPerson->Name;
Summary
So if you stored you data in this serialized format, it is really easy to convert it directly into a PHP object that you can use without manually parsing the strings. You could store the string in a text file if you wanted - or a data store.

Answer 5

Rather than giving you the solution code I'm going to break this down into steps for you.
0) write the file in a machine readable format, e.g. name,age,phonenumber
1) Read from the file line by line
2) Break each line up according to the separator you used e.g. ","
3) Read in values into variables
4) Echo out
If you're stuck on something more specific, let us know.