I'd like to be able to take in a file in PHP
**example_file.txt**
United States
Canada
-----------------------
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
and wrap these individual linebreaks in an HTML element that I pass it.
Example:
magicHtmlGenerator(example_file.txt, '<li>')
// spits out <li>United States</li><li>Canada</li> etc
function magicHtmlGenerator($filename, $wrapper) {
$x = file_get_contents($filename);
return '<'.$wrapper.'>'.str_replace("\n",'</'.$wrapper.'><'.$wrapper.'>',$x).'</'.$wrapper.'>';
}
$html = magicHtmlGenerator('example_file.txt','li');
echo $html;
Load the file in and then use a regular expression to do the replacement.
preg_replace ( \\r+([^\r]+)\r+\g , \<li>$1</li> , $str );
Create a function which takes those two arguments, loads the lines (can be done easily via the file function), then iterate over them appending them to a string, padded with the HTML tag you want.
Here's another way:
$sxml = new SimpleXMLElement('<ul></ul>', LIBXML_NOXMLDECL);
$data = file('example_file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach ($data as $line) {
if (ctype_alpha($line)) { // Or whatever test you need
$sxml->addChild('li', $line);
}
}
echo $sxml->asXML();
Output:
No offence, but it sounds like you are trying to reinvent the wheel. Unless you find that an interesting coding exeercise, why not use of the emany templating systems out there? (hint: Smarty) That would leave your time free for "more important stuff".
