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I am trying to populate a select tag in html form with data from text file. I am using php to do it. Please find the code below:

temp.php

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors',1);

$filename = 'C:\templates\exam.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 $lines){
                echo "<option value='".$lines."'>$lines</option>";
            }?>
        </select>
    </div>
</body>

exam.txt

Req. A + B
Req. B
Req. C

But in the dropdown list I am not getting any data. I am expecting dropdown list to show data from text file as select options.

I am passing php file as render template using Flask. Can we use PHP in Flask?

Can anyone please let me know what I am missing here.

Thanks in advance!

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  • Can you include the content of the text file? Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 14:20
  • And maybe you need to escape both usages of $lines: echo "<option value='".$lines."'>".$lines."</option>"; Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 14:21
  • @Emaro I have included text file data.. Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 14:25
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    Can you put exam.txt where the php file is for testing and remove the windows path? Using absolute paths can be a problem. (the \t in C:\templates makes me nervous). Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 15:10
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    Well I assume you can supply variables to the template like any template engine allows. Have you checked the documentation? Is this the one? flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 15:34
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