PHP read a file and store the informations in variables

Question

Is there any way to read a text file and store the information to variables?

My file.txt is like,

Timestamp 1343872162
No.of tall 2
No.of long 5
tall1 171
tall2 172
long1 170
long2 168
long3 168
long4 166
long5 166

That is, I have to retrieve these values from that file as $time=1343872162, $tall1=171, $tall2=172,$long1=170 etc. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:

<?php
$handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        list( $key, $value ) = explode( ' ', trim($buffer) );
        $$key = $value; //Double $$ to set a var with the string name in $key
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>