Hi, Does any one know how i can let a user search a text file and display the details they have selected.

For example i have a log file with a list of users details about when they accessed my web site. All i want them to do is enter some search data into a form (say username) and from there it will search through the log file (which is a simple text file) and display relevant data associated with their username.

Any ideas would be great.

I'd start here with that project:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Several of those functions are very useful. For instance the fgetcsv() function can be used to parse comma delimited data one line at a time. Of course it all depends on how this text file is structured as to which functions will be the best for the job.

Of course it goes without saying really, that could be a resource-intensive program (depending on the size of these files) and you might be better off considering parsing that log data into a proper database, which is built for queries and such things.



Regards,
Rich

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