Splitting a log file in php

Using an uploader form,
Is it possible to upload and use the following style txt file:

---------------
<name1> I have this error running from inside google
<name1> name3 you know what address I've passed you last friday?
<name2> hi. is there a COMMAND LINE svg editor for linux?
<name2> i explain my problem
<name3> no name1
<name1> xslt processors? custom scripts perhaps?
<name4> but nothing out-of-the-box that I know of
----------------

and extract the names between < > and display each name's string count over all in the entire log file?

for example:
echo ('name1 = 209 characters typed');
echo ('name2 = 100 characters typed');
so on..

echo ('over all characters type X');
echo ('over X amount of users');

I basically want my existing IRC log file viewed as the example above.
thanks in advanced.

 

Yes, it is possible. I could write it if you wanted?

 

Yes please, whenever you have time, I would like to learn how to do it, i'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you

 

Here is the code..

    $myfile = ‘http://site.com/log/2.log’;
    $file_handle = fopen(”http://site.com/log/2.log”, “r”);
    $i=0;
    echo”<pre>”;

    //i is number of lines to read

    while (!feof($file_handle)&&($i<8000)) {

    $line = fgets($file_handle);

    //prints the line

    echo $line;

    echo”<BR>”;

    $i=$i+1;
    }
    echo”</pre>”;
    fclose($file_handle);
    ?>

PHP:

 

Thanks freewebspace, that isn't exactly what i'm needing

 

<?PHP
$f=fopen('file.txt','r');//Read
while(($data=fgets($f))!==false)
{
/* Preg_Match matches one time to a regular expression(perl)
using preg_match_all finds multiple of the expression, but for this, we need it once.

Expression explanation:
^ - Starts the expression -- must end with this too
\< - since < is a command in regex, we escape it this is the < of <name>
(.*) - Finds all data
\> -- Same as the \<
(space) - the space in the strings
(.*) - same as above, gets all data.
^ - End the expression
*/
@preg_match('^\<(.*)\> (.*)^',$data,$match);
if($match[1]!='')
$array[$match[1]]+=strlen($match[2]);
}
/*
foreach ($ArrayVariable as $KeyName => $KeyValue)

Example:
Our array has keys, they are the usernames
Foreach loops through that array, each key is the "as $Keyname" the variable maybe named anything, but use something relavent for sanity sakes.
Then the "=> $KeyValue" gives you the value of the key in the variable $KeyValue. Once again, this can be anything, but use relavent names */

foreach($array as $name => $number)
{
echo $name.' typed '.$number.' letters in this chat<br />';
}
fclose($f)
?>

 

You explained that so well lol, i couldn't ever thank you enough.

 

I have made a few slight changes and am having problems... But not with things I changed lol:

<?PHP

$file = 'log.txt'; //File to open
$f=fopen($file,'r');//Read

while(($data=fgets($f))!==false)
{
	@preg_match("^\<(.*)\> (.*)^",$data,$match);
	
	if($match[1]!='')
		$array[$match[1]]+=strlen($match[2]);
}
foreach($array as $name => $number)
{
	$html = htmlentities($name.' typed '.$number.' chars');
	echo $html.'<br />';
}
fclose($f)

?>

PHP:

I'm having one simple problem.
Log file contains:

<Name1> hi
<Name2> !ghelp yourki
<+GoogleBot> Name2: <Name2> what is yourki?
<Name4> hiya Name1

Code (markup):

I get an output as:

Name1 typed 2 chars
Name2 typed 14 chars
+GoogleBot> Name2: <Name2 typed 18 chars
Name4 typed 10 chars

Code (markup):

It should just give me an output of:

Name1 typed 2 chars
Name2 typed 14 chars
+GoogleBot typed 32 chars
Name4 typed 10 chars

Code (markup):

I think the problem is the +GoogleBot inserts <Name2> into the log and when the script runs, it gets confused at that line.
Thanks in advanced for any help .

 

Solved, replaced:
@preg_match("^\<(.*)\> (.*)^",$data,$match);
with
@preg_match("^\<(.*?)\> (.*)^",$data,$match);

a pesky little question mark lol