PHP question

[Donners]

Is there a way to use php include command to include only a part of a file?

For exampel if a html file has two lines in it

LINE ONE
LINE TWO

I want to use php include to only include LINE TWO in my website.

[Calvinguy]

There are several options. The 'file' function might be a good option for you.

[schneemann]

It depends on whether you it will only ever have two lines in it, or if you know exactly what that line contains. In any case, it sounds like a bit inefficient to be doing anything I can think of just to include one line of text from a two line file.

[Donners]

There are several options. The 'file' function might be a good option for you.

I'm not good with php at all, could you explain a little more?

[Donners]

It depends on whether you it will only ever have two lines in it, or if you know exactly what that line contains. In any case, it sounds like a bit inefficient to be doing anything I can think of just to include one line of text from a two line file.

I have a html file with 74 sections in it and want to include each section in its own page.

So 74 pages will take information from a single html page instead of taking it from 74 other pages.

[Calvinguy]

I'm not good with php at all, could you explain a little more?

$lines = file('yourfile.html');
echo $lines[1]; // will print line two from your included file

[schneemann]

I have a html file with 74 sections in it and want to include each section in its own page.

So 74 pages will take information from a single html page instead of taking it from 74 other pages.

Maybe I'm having a hard time visualizing what you're after.
Here's what I think: Put it in a database. A database will be FAR faster.
file() will read all 74 sections into memory at once whereas with a database you can grab the specific one you want.

[Donners]

$lines = file('yourfile.html');
echo $lines[1]; // will print line two from your included file

Almost what Im looking for, but instead of choosing the lines I would like to choose a section (with multiple lines) from the included file.

Like a link anchor that defines a section of a page. And I want to include the anchor section.

[joehoya]

Quick answer is to modify your big html page so that each of the 74 sections is encased between a <div> tag. each <div> tag will include an id attribute (e.g. id="73") which will identify the section.

From here you could use the xml parser in php5 to build a solution that might last.

If you just want something quick and dirty, assuming you aren't using <div> tags anywhere else in your big html file. you could write a regular expression that pulls all data beginning with <div id="73"> and ending with the first instance of </div>.

[Donners]

Quick answer is to modify your big html page so that each of the 74 sections is encased between a <div> tag. each <div> tag will include an id attribute (e.g. id="73") which will identify the section.

From here you could use the xml parser in php5 to build a solution that might last.

If you just want something quick and dirty, assuming you aren't using <div> tags anywhere else in your big html file. you could write a regular expression that pulls all data beginning with <div id="73"> and ending with the first instance of </div>.

Thanks for the answer.

I manage to pull this code together:

<?php
$start='<div id="73">';

$end='</div>';

$page='test2.html';

$fp=fopen($page,'r');

$cont=fread($fp,filesize($page));

preg_match("/$start(.*)$end/s",$cont,$match);

$info=$match[0];

print($cont[1]);
?>

But it doesnt work, any ideas?

[Donners]

Sorted it out, this code worked for me.

<?php
$start='<!-- START HTML DATA -->';

$end='<!-- END HTML DATA -->';

$page='yay.html';

$fp=fopen($page,'r');

$cont=fread($fp,filesize($page));

preg_match("/$start(.*)$end/s",$cont,$match);

$info=$match[0];

fclose($cont);
print $info;

?>

Thanks for the help.

[joehoya]

Any Time!