Populating A Dropdown List With Values From A Text File
I am trying to populate a dropdown list with values from a text file. I have the following code, however, I am not getting any thing within the dropdown list. Can anyone help me? H
Solution 1:
1.your current code page must be a .php page.(extension of the page need to be .php)
2.change code like below:-
<?php
//remove <script></script> and add php start and close tag
//comment these two lines when code started working fine
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors',1);
$filename = 'pytxt.txt';
$eachlines = file($filename, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
?>
<body>
<div id="page-wrap">
<h1>Pulls from text files</h1>
<select id="value">
<option selected value="base">Please Select</option>
<?php foreach($eachlines as $lines){ //add php code here
echo "<option value='".$lines."'>$lines</option>";
}?>
</select>
</div>
</body>
Solution 2:
Since it seems like you want a jQuery/HTML answer...
- Use ajax to read your text file
- Split the data into an array (A JS function that performs a similar operation to the PHP function explode)
- Append each of your options to your select list.
<head>
<script>
$.get('pytxt.txt'),
function(data) {
console.log(data); /* Open the console too see the data */
var options = data.split(','),
/* Something to "explode" by. See link. */
$select = $('select#value');
for (var i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
$select.append('<option value="' + i + '">' + options[i] + '</option>"');
}
}, "text");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page-wrap">
<h1>Pulls from text files</h1>
<select id="value">
<option selected value="base">Please Select</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
Solution 3:
To catch up your code you could do some like
<?php
$filename = 'pytxt.txt';
$eachlines = file($filename, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$select = '<select name="value" id="value">';
foreach($eachlines as $lines)
{
$options .= "<option>{$lines}</option>";
}
$select .= $options . "</select>";
?>
And than you can add it to your html. This all should be in the same php file. (not recommended way!)
<body>
<div id="page-wrap">
<h1>Pulls from text files</h1>
<?php echo $select; ?>
</div>
</body>
even if this is nasty source! I recomment to seperate php from html. But catching up to your source this could look like this.
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