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scorpiosage · Sep 1st, 2004, 7:05 PM

Well, I have been working on learning PHP so that I can have new users on a website, and information for scheduling sent via email. Some of the information needs to stay in a database in order to call it back such as the user's userid the password their phone number email address and real name.

so, I have been working on taking some exhisting codes off the net and modifying them as a way of learning what each thing does. I have been succesful with quite a bit of the basic PHP stuff but always get stuck when working with databasing.

In the following code, I am using a Pipe (|) delimited text database with "explode" to echo the data to the screen.

In it's presant state the information that is returned to the screen is is actually a list of each database entry, but what I want to do is print only one entry based on the username. Can someone help me with this...

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<?php 

$filename ="person.data"; * * 
$myFile = fopen($filename, "r"); 
if(! $myFile){ * * * * * *


print ("File could not be opened."); 

exit; 
} 

$fcontents = file($filename); 


while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) { 
 *
"<p><b>Line $line_num:</b> " . str_replace("<p>", "", $line) . "<br>\n"; 
$values = explode("|", $line); 
echo "Name: " . $values[2] . " " . $values[3] . "<br>"; 
echo "email: <a href=mailto:$values[4]> $values[4] </a><br>"; 
echo "Phone Number: " . $values[5] . "</b>";
} 
 * * *
fclose($myFile); 

?>

Thank you very much in advance
Mike

Sep 1st, 2004, 7:05 PM	#1
scorpiosage Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 55 Rep Power: 5	Well, I have been working on learning PHP so that I can have new users on a website, and information for scheduling sent via email. Some of the information needs to stay in a database in order to call it back such as the user's userid the password their phone number email address and real name. so, I have been working on taking some exhisting codes off the net and modifying them as a way of learning what each thing does. I have been succesful with quite a bit of the basic PHP stuff but always get stuck when working with databasing. In the following code, I am using a Pipe (\|) delimited text database with "explode" to echo the data to the screen. In it's presant state the information that is returned to the screen is is actually a list of each database entry, but what I want to do is print only one entry based on the username. Can someone help me with this... (Toggle Plain Text) <?php $filename ="person.data"; * * $myFile = fopen($filename, "r"); if(! $myFile){ * * * * * * print ("File could not be opened."); exit; } $fcontents = file($filename); while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) { * "<p><b>Line $line_num:</b> " . str_replace("<p>", "", $line) . "<br>\n"; $values = explode("\|", $line); echo "Name: " . $values[2] . " " . $values[3] . "<br>"; echo "email: <a href=mailto:$values[4]> $values[4] </a><br>"; echo "Phone Number: " . $values[5] . "</b>"; } * * * fclose($myFile); ?> <?php $filename ="person.data"; * * $myFile = fopen($filename, "r"); if(! $myFile){ * * * * * * print ("File could not be opened."); exit; } $fcontents = file($filename); while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) { * "<p><b>Line $line_num:</b> " . str_replace("<p>", "", $line) . "<br>\n"; $values = explode("\|", $line); echo "Name: " . $values[2] . " " . $values[3] . "<br>"; echo "email: <a href=mailto:$values[4]> $values[4] </a><br>"; echo "Phone Number: " . $values[5] . "</b>"; } * * * fclose($myFile); ?> Thank you very much in advance Mike __________________ Here's my latest project still in the works, and I need to get rid of this "frame" situation for real. www.prideofaustin.com

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