PHP - Pulling A Single Line From Huge Text File

This is a section of my code that goes and gets videos from any video site. What I’m having issues with is having it post a random title, that are all in a text file called titles.txt. What I’m wanting to accomplish is have my script go pull the video embed code, the duration, the tags, etc. Which all works fine until I get to the title part where it pulls locally from the server from the text file. I'm not an advance programmer so not sure if I am even approaching this correct way. Here is the code I have that is responsible for putting the title in. I appreciate your help.

$video = array(
‘user_id’ => $this->user_id,
‘status’ => $this->status,
‘site’ => ‘my site’,
‘id’ => ‘’,
‘embeddable’ => true,
‘url’ => ‘’,
‘titles’ => ‘’,
‘title’ => ‘’,
‘description’ => ‘’,
‘tags’ => ‘’,
‘category’ => ‘’,
‘thumbs’ => array(),
‘duration’ => 0,
‘embed’ => ‘’
);

function random_title ()
{
$titles = file (“titles.txt”, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$num = rand (0, intval (count ($titles) / 3)) * 3;
return ucwords($titles[$num]);
}

//Title
if(preg_match(’/title="(.*?)"/’, $match, $matches_title)) {
$video[‘title’] = random_title(). ’ - My site name’;
} else {
$this->errors[] = ‘Failed to get video title for ‘.$video[‘url’].’!’;
if (!$this->debug) continue;
else $debug_e[] = ‘TITLE’;
}

 

The title says it all,..well as all u can see, there are many methods to accomplish this done but not before undergoing through a heavy tasking process. For instance,
1. Open the file
2. Reads the content of the file into array.
3. Find out the desire line of text that we want to replace.
4. Make that line of text as variable and assigns with the new data(that we want to replace) as its values.
5.open another file.
6.Write the whole contents to the file opened in 5.
7. Put the contents back to the file of original.

Can anyone contributes a better way to get this done? Like replace/delete a specific line without affecting other characters or anything therein?
Thanx.

P.S
reading and using str_replace to make the alteration always ends up in giving some kind of result beyond desired after the first round of code execution.

Here's what I'm trying to do, and I am having trouble getting started with this.  It's a very simple process, but I didn't want to spend the next 6 hours in frustration, so some help getting started would be great.

Here's the purpose of the script:
1. Allow user to add a text file to a form.
2. Take the text file, add HTML code to the beginning and end of each paragraph (a single line of text, usually paragraphs would be separated by a line return)
3. Send the user an email with the HTML file attached and thank them or whatever.
4. Allow the system to throttle itself (one-at-a-time) so that many people using the site won't bog it down.  These files will probably be anywhere from 100 KB to 1,000 KB in size, usually hitting in the 300-500KB range.

Here's what I can do very easily:
1. Allow user to add a text file - very simple and straightforward.
2. Take the text file, add HTML... - this is what I need a little help figuring out.  Each paragraph needs to have <p> at the beginning and </p> at the end, and the script will also search for keywords on certain lines (section headers) and add a <align="center"> tag to that, and so forth.  I can handle the formatting rules, but making sure the loop runs correctly could be a problem.
3. Send the user an email... - very easy, I can do that myself.
4. Allow the system to throttle itself... - this could be tricky.  I was thinking a database with a TINYINT field, 0 for not processed yet, 1 for processing, 2 for processed.  Cron job checks the next one on the list to see if it needs to send it to the processor, if the file is already being processed, or can be sent to a different database (completed entries) and removed from the current queue.  The cron job would also be responsible for triggering the "Your file is converted!" email and the attachment.

Any/all help would be greatly appreciated on this.  I am going to work on the parts that I can do myself, and I'll be checking back for the discussion - in between Mountain Dew runs.

I have a PHP file that is executed via batch file very frequently for live updating. This is a sort of "sync" file for reading/writing to a MySQL database. I am able to get it functioning absolutely fine when executed manually via a web browser (and my echo debug lines output the expected information), yet when I run the same PHP file via the command line, it seems to just not be capable of opening any file for reading, so the equivalent variables that are correct when executed on a web browser are blank when echoed through the command line.

Is there a different way of handling reading of files when running a php script via the command line, or should it function exactly the same as when run via a browser?

For instance:

$k = "0";
$line = file("examplefile.log")[$k];
echo $line;

I need to get the 2nd code working. Please help.

This works
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT addressz FROM abs WHERE statez = 'AZ'";
$results = mysql_query($query);

But this dosen't.
$SomeVar = $_POST['disloc'];
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT addressz FROM abs WHERE statez = '".$SomeVar."' ORDER BY addressz ASC";
$results = mysql_query($query);

This sounds like it should be pretty simple but I've looked for a while and I'm having trouble finding an answer.  What I have is a simple table with 3 columns with predetermined widths.  When the text that is queried from the database is inserted into the table, and the text string is longer than the column width, it pushes the text to a second line, which throws the whole table out of whack.  Instead, I want the text to be cut off before going to the next line.  For example:

This is what is happening:

This is a sample string of
text.

This is what I'm trying to do:

This is a sample string...

Can anyone tell me where to find the solution to this problem?

Not that it's needed, but here is some simple code that I'm working with:
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<?php

$message = "This is a sample string of text.";

echo "<table width=\"150\" height=\"20\"border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width=\"50\" height=\"20\" align=\"left" valign=\"top\">Column 1</td>";
echo "<td width=\"50\" height=\"20\" align=\"left" valign=\"top\">Column 2</td>";
echo "<td width=\"50\" height=\"20\" align=\"left" valign=\"top\">$message</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";

?>

Hi Everyone,

Let me start by saying i need any help put to me in dumb person terms, i know nothing but the bare bare basics of most web coding let alone php, enough to make very simple pages and forms.

On to my problem... What i am aiming for us a single web page which takes a list of names from a file, generates a 2 column table, makes the second column into boxes where data can be entered in to, then i want it to be submitted to email in the form of a html email, the email doesn't need any fancy formatting or colour scheme, just want the the table of names and entered information sent

Now this is how far i have got (with help obviously):
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<body>
<h1 align="center"><u>7B Praise Points</u></h1>
<div id="contact-wrapper">
  <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="contactform">
<?php 

$file = file("7B.txt"); 
$count = 0;
print "<table cellspacing='2'>\n 
<tr><td>Student Name</td><td>Number of Praise Points</td></tr>\n"; 

foreach($file as $line){ 
$line = trim($line); 
$split = split("\t",$line); 
print "<tr>\n<td>$split[0]<input name='name$count' type='hidden' value='$split[0]'></td>\n<td>$split[1]<input name='points$count' type='hidden' value='$split[1]'></td>\n</tr>"; 
$count++;
} 

print "</table>"; 

?>
  <p>
    <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
  </p>
</form>
</div>
</body>

So i've got it generating the table from the list of names in the file called "7B.txt" all i need to be able to do is making the second column in to a data entry box and generating the email
Starting with the first problem of making the second column in to data entry boxes how do i go about doing this?

Thanks

Hello, all: been trying to convert this little single-file upload to multiple by naming each file form-field as "userfile[]" as it's supposed to automatically treat them as an array.. but no luck!  Can you guide me as to what am I doing wrong??
appreciate the help!


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<?php

if (!isset($_REQUEST["seenform"])) {
?>
   <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="#" method="post">
   Upload file: <input name="userfile[]" type="file" id="userfile[]">
   Upload file: <input name="userfile[]" type="file" id="userfile[]">
   <input type="submit" value="Upload">
   <input type="hidden" name="seenform">
   </form>
<?php
} 
else 
{ // upload begins
$userfiles = array($_FILES['userfile']);
foreach ($userfiles as $userfile)
{ // foreach begins
   $uploaded_dir = "uploads/";
   $userfile = $_FILES['userfile']["name"];
   $path = $uploaded_dir . $userfile;
   if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']["tmp_name"], $path)) 
     {
   print "$userfile file moved";
   // do something with the file here
    } else 
{
   print "Move failed";
}
} // foreach ends
} // upload ends

?>

Hi, I'm modifying the following PHP code from a Wordpress plugin:

/* Byline. */

if ( $instance['byline'] )
echo do_shortcode( "<p class='byline'>{$instance['byline']}</p>" );

/* Entry title. */

if ( 'widget' !== $instance['entry_container'] && $instance['entry_title'] && $show_entry_title ) {
the_title( "<{$instance['entry_title']} class='entry-title'><a href='" . get_permalink() . "' title='" . the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) . "' rel='bookmark'>", "</a></{$instance['entry_title']}>" );
}
elseif ( 'widget' !== $instance['entry_container'] && $show_entry_title ) {
the_title( "<a href='" . get_permalink() . "' title='" . the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) . "' rel='bookmark'>", "</a>" );
}

The output currently is:
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[ December 13, 2010 ]

Post Title
I'm trying to combine the two so that the output appears on one line.  What is the operator to execute multiple command in one statement?

Thanks.

Hi,

I am pretty much a new newbie when it comes to PHP, and have a problem that I need to solve, for a website that has to go live tomorrow.

Basically I have been using a javascript upload script called 'uploadify' which had an option for the upload folder which was added to the script in the form:

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'folder'    : '/songs/<?php echo $_SESSION["name"];?>',
I added the php echo to return the username from a PHP login, so it gets added to the path to the upload folder (each user has their own subfolder for uploading to).

With the new version of the uploadify script, the folder option has been moved to a separate PHP file where it is now in the form:

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$targetFolder = '/songs/';
I need to find a way of adding the username variable to this line.  I have tried using echo in various ways, and googled about, but it has stumped me, simple as it may be.

If anyone could let me know how I construct this line I'd be very grateful.  Time is of the essence, as they say...

Thanks,

Nick

How do I Upload Multiple Files using a PHP form and script? 10 files at one time would be great.
Ultimately I need a photo upload and management script.

Here is my current single file upload form:

<form action="upload.php" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Upload a Photo:</label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>


Here is the Php Script:

<?php
if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg"))
&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 200000))
  {
  if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
    {
    echo "Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br />";
    }
  else
    {
    echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br />";
    echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br />";
    echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />";
    echo "Temp file: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] . "<br />";

    if (file_exists("upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]))
      {
      echo $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists. ";
      }
    else
      {
      move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
      "uploads/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
      echo "Stored in: " . "uploads/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"];
      }
    }
  }
else
  {
  echo "Invalid file";
  }
?>

hello.

i have a navigation which i downloaded from Code: [Select]
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordionmenu-bullet.htm and i would link to pull the information in from my db

this is the html

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<div class="arrowlistmenu">

<h3 class="menuheader expandable">title</h3>

<ul class="categoryitems">
<li><a href="#">link</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 class="menuheader expandable">title</h3>
<ul class="categoryitems">
     <li><a href="#">link</a></li>
     <li><a href="#" class="subexpandable">nested title</a>
              <ul class="subcategoryitems" style="margin-left: 15px">
       <li><a href="#">title</a></li>
       </ul>
      </li>
<li><a href="#">title</a></li>
</ul>
<div>
</div>


in the database each link and title have there own parent id and level id

so for example:

$level
$parent_id
$title
$link
$url

Hi all:

I have been going nuts trying to get this to work. I have gone through many attempts based on internet searches and examples that simply do not work.

I have files stored in my MySQL db. The files cna be of any type and are being displayed in a listed report. The files are hyperlinked and clickable, but here is the issue:

When I click on a file in:
http://development.products-and-services.ca/cms/test.php
I get:
http://development.products-and-services.ca/cms/test2.php?content=DHall_CV_webdev_eng.pdf
as a blank page result.
The objective is to get a file download alert or to see the file in the browser.

Any ideas?