I have a list in a text file:
Alabama
Alaska
Alberta
...
and I would like to have a PHP array like that :
array('Alabama' => 'Alabama', 'Alaska' => 'Alaska', ...)
How could I have this array ? (I am a beginner in PHP and in computing in general). Thanks a lot
You can use file() to read the entire file to an array, and use array_combine() to assign the array keys.
$arr = file('file.txt', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES | FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$arr = array_combine($arr, $arr);
// read the file as an array of lines
$lines = file('./myFile.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
// fill the array
$arr = array();
foreach($lines as $line) {
$arr[$line] = $line;
}
You could actually read a file into an array.
$states=require('path/to/states.php');
then in the states.php file
return array(
'Alabama' => 'Alabama',
'Alaska' => 'Alaska'
// and so on.
);
You would have to format your list, but that should be pretty easy using a text editor with regex.
