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**ungratefulninja** · 03-04-2007, 01:24 AM

It's 4am and I haven't gone to bed yet, so I'm not going to be super helpful... but you could just store the strings you're wanting to use in an array and then either randomly or in order substitute into your "bit of text."

I do something kinda like that on some pages for an ad rotator. There is a php include that calls a separate file that I have different banners/ad-copy.. it just displays them randomly so surfers don't keep seeing the same one. I didn't want to bother creating a database for something so simple..

**k0nr4d** · 03-04-2007, 01:37 AM

str_replace();

**k0nr4d** · 03-04-2007, 01:40 AM

err nm sorry im drunka nd didn't read entire post.

First off you wanna do file_get_contents() to read the textfile in,
Then explode(); on \n's
then foreach($array as $i) { $var = str_replace('variable',$i,$originalstring); }

**ungratefulninja** · 03-04-2007, 02:01 AM

That's pretty good for being drunk.

**k0nr4d** · 03-04-2007, 02:40 AM

what can i say, im talented :P

**nation-x** · 03-04-2007, 03:56 AM

Originally posted by k0nr4d

err nm sorry im drunka nd didn't read entire post.

First off you wanna do file_get_contents() to read the textfile in,
Then explode(); on \n's
then foreach($array as $i) { $var = str_replace('variable',$i,$originalstring); }

PHP has a built in function for that http://www.php.net/file that reads the file and puts each line of the file into an array element.

if you have to files that are exactly the same length in lines then you just have to read them both in... iterate the arrays... make your replacements and output the result.

Code:

$file1 = file('path_to_first_file');
$file2 = file('path_to_second_file'); //assuming that this file contains delimited text for the purpose of this example

$line_iterator = 0;
foreach ($file1 as $line) {
    if (!empy($line)) {
        list($var1, $var2, $var3) = explode(',', $file2[$line_iterator]); //pull variable from corresponding line of file #2 that are comma delimited
        $temp_line = str_replace('<{var1}>', $var1, $line);
        $temp_line = str_replace('<{var2}>', $var2, $temp_line);
        $temp_line = str_replace('<{var3}>', $var3, $temp_line);
        $output .= $temp_line; //add the line to the output
        unset($temp_line);
    }
    $line_iterator++;
}
echo $output;

**nation-x** · 03-04-2007, 04:02 AM

Code:

if (!empy($line)) {

This needs to be

Code:

if (!empty($line)) {

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