php reading files

black-ops · 8 Jun 2009 at 10:27

Ok so im not a php coder as such and still trying to learn new and challenging things, however i would like some help with what direction i should be going in.
I have a project of creating a php script that will read a file but not a standard .txt it is a .dmx file, now using the echo readfile("file.dmx"); is ok but i need to format this file.
Thing is the dmx is structured like this:

Code:

"Info"
{
"info" "int" "0"
}

How would i go about reading this with php as when i use the readfile function all i get is.
"info"{"info""int"0"}
which is all well and good but not when the .dmx file gets much bigger then its just a pure mess.
Any ideas people?

LiE · 8 Jun 2009 at 10:40

file() maybe what you're looking for http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
You can put the file into an array then loop through it while adding the formatting.

black-ops · 8 Jun 2009 at 10:51

brilliant, works like a charm, thank you my friend.

black-ops · 8 Jun 2009 at 11:59

Ok just updated. Ive got the correct parts of a file displaying using the arrays.

PHP:

echo "line: ".$lines[15]."<br />";

How would i select what part of the array i want to display, as it's set up like:

Code:

"array15" "int" "0"