hello everyone,

i am new to the more complex parts of PHP. Is it possible to host a script that will allow a user to scan local text files and take out certain parts of it? i am trying to get item links from a games log file. here is what it looks like ~

1154824696)[Sat Aug 05 20:38:16 2006] \aNPC 13172 Cliffjumper:Cliffjumper\/a says, "Welcome! What can I help you with?"
(1154824700)[Sat Aug 05 20:38:20 2006] Starting broker transaction with Cliffjumper.
(1154824700)[Sat Aug 05 20:38:20 2006] \aNPC 13172 Cliffjumper:Cliffjumper\/a says, "Confound it! Where did I put that ledger? It must be around here somewhere!"
(1154824701)[Sat Aug 05 20:38:21 2006] \#C7CFC708/05/2006 04:52 PM Jacky buys 20 \#FFFFFF\aITEM 1602851716 -119212747:Superior Elixir of Deftness\/a\#C7CFC7 for \#FFEE701g, \#A0A0A083s\/c

the orange part is a piece of a log and the red is a sample of what i want to get out of it and put it in a database. is something like that possible?

any help, links or anything would be great.

thanks

That would definately be possible.
First of all, you can read the contents of a .txt file either with the file_get_contents() function, or with this code (taken from the PHP docs) :

PHP Code:

<?php
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
?>

Then, for getting particular parts out of the string, you could would either need regular expressions or some of the PHP string functions - it depends on what criteria you want to take the substring out with.

thanks for the help!

how would i add a progress bar? some of the logs are close to 200mb i would like to show them something so they know it is working.

thanks