Foreach Echo Text Document, Target Styles By Line

LegoTrip · 10-03-2011, 05:55 PM

Hey guys! I need a little help with something... but please keep in mind I am a PHPN00B so pls don't hit me in the face

Basically, I have a text document named headline.txt which contains the following lines:

Lilly Creightmore

Homemaker, photographer, blogger.

Crystal Palace, London, United Kingdom, January 2011

Then I have pulled that out using the following code:

Code:

<?php 		
   $text_file1 = glob('headline.txt');
?>
<?php foreach ($text_file1 as $key => $file1) : ?>		
   <?php echo nl2br(file_get_contents($file1)); ?>
   <br />
   <br />
<?php endforeach; ?>

This is all fine and well, works perfectly, as you can see in the div with the class "luckypeopletop" over here: http://we-are-lucky.com/stage/666/Th...Ben/index2.php

However, is it possible to target each line with a separate style class? For example, one style for Lilly Creightmore, a different one for Homemaker, photographer, blogger. etc.

Ideally, it would eventually look like this: http://we-are-lucky.com/stage/666/The-Lucky/Ben/

Does this even make sense? Regardless, thanks for reading

mlseim · 10-03-2011, 07:20 PM

Can your text file look like this, where you insert HTML/CSS into the actual text file?

The first line looks at your CSS style sheet for the class called "topLine".
The next line uses "inline CSS" to define it right there in the line.

Code:

<div class="topLine">Lilly Creightmore</div><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#a00000";>Homemaker, photographer, blogger.</span><br />
<br />
Crystal Palace, London, United Kingdom, January 2011<br />

Wherever you want that text file to appear, you include it ...

<html>
<style>
.topLine{
font-family:arial;
color:#00a000;
}
</style>
<body>
Hi there, this is my site <br /><br />

<?php include("headline.txt");?>

</body>
</html>

.

LegoTrip · 10-03-2011, 07:36 PM

That is a very good suggestion, but the main reason I am approaching things this way is so that my client can add information just by writing a text file. I am worried adding styles into the text document would just confuse them :/

If that is the only way, so be it, but I was hoping someone would have some fancy idea I could implement.

Thanks for the reply tho mlseim!

tracknut · 10-03-2011, 08:14 PM

There may be a fancier way, but here's one solution:

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title>Untitled 1</title>
<style type="text/css">
.s1 {color:#F00}
.s2 {color:#0F0}
.s3 {color:#00F}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p>    
<?php
    $fp = fopen ('headline.txt','r');
    echo "<span class='s1'>".fgets ($fp)."<br></span>";
    echo "<span class='s2'>".fgets ($fp)."<br></span>";
    echo "<span class='s3'>".fgets ($fp)."<br></span>";
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>

mlseim · 10-03-2011, 09:46 PM

Is the information structured? Or will it be sort of free-form?

JV- · 10-03-2011, 10:08 PM

If you could have the client edit a CSV file or XML file instead, you could easily manipulate the data with PHP and apply styles to different areas.

You could also do the same with a fixed length text file, but that may be too confusing for the client.

Answering mlseim's question will help to determine the best solution.

mlseim · 10-03-2011, 11:07 PM

I'm steering toward the idea that the OP doesn't use MySQL. So, they can also
avoid using .txt files as well. They can use Google Docs (spreadsheet). Allow certain
Google accounts to access the spreadsheet ... and it's all free. A PHP script can
easily read the data and process it, just like a database.

coin · 10-04-2011, 04:31 AM

Maybe something like this?

PHP Code:


			

$classes = array('class1', 'class2', 'class3');
$file = file_get_contents($filename);
$current = 0;

foreach($file as $line) {
     echo '<span class="'.$classes[$current].'">'.$line.'</div>';
     $current++;
}

LegoTrip · 10-04-2011, 08:59 AM

Wow, you guys are great, thanks so much for all your help.

I went with tracknut's suggestion, and it worked perfectly. That's some sexy php ninja skills right there buddy, thanks a million! Exactly what I was asking.

coin, your suggestion seems really cool too, I will definitely look into using arrays in the future too.

All of you are awesome, seriously, thanks so much!!!!