Calling variables from a text file

Hi.

I have a text file (example.txt) of lines which have a variable in them, like so:

blah blah blah blah blah $word blah blah
blah blah $word blah blah


I then have a script which pulls 1 line from the text file at random, like so:

$namefile = "example.txt";
$handle = fopen($namefile, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($namefile));
fclose($handle);
$word1 = explode("\r", $contents);
$result = $word1[rand(0, count($word1)-1)];




The variable doesn't get read when I try and echo it like this:

echo "<p class='res'>$result</p><br />";


How can I echo the variable I have placed in the text file ?


Thanks in advance.

 

$word1 = explode(" ", $contents);

and try it with

$result = $word1[34];

check if it works.

 

That didn't work.

It returned one word from the data.

 

$word1 = explode("/n", $contents);
$count = count($word1);
$count = $count-1;
$rand = rand(0,$count);
$result = $word1[$rand];

echo $result;

this should work.
if not check the file if it even got lines and its not a huge line that wraps.

 

Hint:

$namefile = "example.txt";
$handle = fopen($namefile, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($namefile));
fclose($handle);
$word1 = explode("\r", $contents);

// Does the same as

$word1 = file("example.txt");

PHP:

 

The code pulls 1 line at random from the file (example.txt) - The code does this fine already.

My problem is that the variable is being echoed literally as "$word" instead of what got posted from a form.


So, lets say the word posted was 'test' and the line that gets selected at random from example.txt was:

This is a $word


It will echo it as: "This is a $word", instead of "This is a test"

 

str_replace('$word', $_POST['word'], $line); ? (adjust for your code)

 

Ever thought bout storing your variables in the text file as a serialized format?

Example:

<?
$name = "bob";
$people = array("James", "John", "Mary", "Paul");
$money = 4.58;
$all_together_now = array("Someone" => $name, "People" => $people, "Money" => $money);

$newtext = serialize($all_together_now);

echo $newtext;
?>

PHP:

would produce a string such as this:

a:3:{s:7:"Someone";s:3:"bob";s:6:"People";a:4:{i:0;s:5:"James";i:1;s:4:"John";i:2;s:4:"Mary";i:3;s:4:"Paul";}s:5:"Money";d:4.5800000000000000710542735760100185871124267578125;}

Code (markup):

IF you load up the same string (say in a variable called $data after reading it in from a file)

$newcode = unserialize($data);
echo $newcode['Money']."\n";
echo $newcode['People'][1];

PHP:

You'd get this:

4.58
John

Code (markup):

Essentially serialize/unserialize allows you to convert PHP objects into a string so that they can be stored or transmitted and then unserialize converts it back into a PHP object (such as an array). Making storing and recovery much easier.

 

Premiumscripts, in this situation $word is actually a capitalized version of $_POST['word']

(Thats a bit further up in the script I have made).

So $word is a valid variable, its just it is being taken literally when I echo it from the text file.