PHP - Load data to array

Question

is possible load data to array from .txt?

This is my .php file:

<?php

    $file = file_get_contents('data.txt');
    $data = array(

    $file;

    );

?>

This is data.txt file:

    "1" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'),  
    "2" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'),  
    "3" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3') 

But it doesn´t work. Thanks for help.

Answer 1

There are a number of better ways to do this.

With JSON

data.json:

{
  "1": ['code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'],
  "2": 'code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3',
  "3": 'code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'
}

PHP to read it:

<?php
  $data = json_decode(file_get_contents('data.json'), true);
  var_dump($data)

With a PHP data file

data.php

<?php
return [
    "1" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'),  
    "2" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3'),  
    "3" => array('code', 'name', 'surname', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'datetime', 'place1', 'place2', 'number1', 'number2', 'data1', 'data2', 'data3')
];

code to read it:

<?php
$data = include('data.php');

You could also use php's serialize, but it makes the data format a bit less readable.