How do I read each line from a file in php? - php

Question

I'm new to learning php and in one of my first programs I wanted to make a basic php website with login capabilities with and array of the user and passwd.
my idea is to store the username as a list parameter and have the passwd as the contents, like this:
arr = array(username => passwd, user => passwd);
now my problem is that I don't know how I can read from the file (data.txt) so I can add it into the array.
data.txt sample:
username passwd
anotherUSer passwd
I've opened the file with fopen and stored it in $data.

Answer 1

You can use the file() function.
foreach(file("data.txt") as $line) {
// do stuff here
}

Answer 2

Modify this PHP example (taken from the official PHP site... always check first!):
$handle = #fopen("/path/to/yourfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
echo $buffer;
}
if (!feof($handle)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
fclose($handle);
}
to:
$lines = array();
$handle = #fopen("/path/to/yourfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
lines[] = $buffer;
}
if (!feof($handle)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
fclose($handle);
}
// add code to loop through $lines array and do the math...
Be aware that you should not store login details in a textfile that in addition is not encrypted, this approach has severe security issues.
I know you are new from PHP, but the best approach is to store it in a DB and crypting the passwords with an algorithm such as MD5 or SHA1,

Answer 3

You shouldn't store sensitive information as plaintext, but to answer your question,
$txt_file = file_get_contents('data.txt'); //Get the file
$rows = explode("\n", $txt_file); //Split the file by each line
foreach ($rows as $row) {
$users = explode(" ", $row); //Split the line by a space, which is the seperator between username and password
$username = $users[0];
$password = $users[1];
}
Take a look at this thread.

Answer 4

This works for extremely large files as well:
$handle = #fopen("data.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
    $line = stream_get_line($handle, 1000000, "\n");
//Do Stuff Here.
}
fclose($handle);
}

Answer 5

Use file() or file_get_contents() to create either an array or a string.
process the file contents as needed
// Put everything in the file in an array
$aArray = file('file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
// Iterate throug the array
foreach ($aArray as $sLine) {
// split username an password
$aData = explode(" ", $sLine);
// Do something with the username and password
$sName = $aData[0];
$sPass = $aData[1];
}