Adding Entire File into PHP Array

Question

I have been attempting to write a website that processes names of people and reads them back in a list, so I can do other things with them later. I need them to be alphabetized, and show up with each person on their own line. Kind of like this:

[1] Doe--John

[2] Washington--George

[3] Zekeman--William

I have created a php script that uses an array to sort the names; it is in the file sort.php. I have created a file for the people, called students.html. These names were fed in from a form.

To display the name on the webpage, I created a simple php include function.

Here is my coding:

Sort.php

    <?php

        $filename = "students.html"

        $names = array file( string $filename );
        sort($names);
        foreach ($names as $key => $val) {
              echo "[" . $key . "] " . $val . "\n";
        }

    ?>

Students.html

    "Washington--George",
    "Zekeman--William",
    "Doe--John",

Webpage

   <?php include 'sort.php';?>

Everything works perfectly, except the webpage displays this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in /home/www/the/path/to/my/directory/sort.php on line 3

I have played with it and I cannot figure out how to fix the error. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Note: I apologize if this makes no sense. I am brand new to this.

did you check your code properly ?? i think u are missing semicolon in you code?? — Drudge Rajen
– Drudge Rajen, Commented Jun 2, 2014 at 12:27

l0gic · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-02 12:27:05Z

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On the end of $filename = "students.html" you need to put a ;

Edit: also $names = file($filename);

answered Jun 2, 2014 at 12:27

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Jon · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-02 12:26:47Z

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$names = array file( string $filename );

This is wrong. You need to remove both array and string.

answered Jun 2, 2014 at 12:26

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BMN Over a year ago

And he also miss a ; on the previous line.

BMN Over a year ago

Right, I saw after posting my comment.

M.S. · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-02 12:29:15Z

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should be

<?php

$filename = "students.html";

$names = file( $filename );
sort($names);
foreach ($names as $key => $val) {
    echo "[" . $key . "] " . $val . "\n";
}

?>

answered Jun 2, 2014 at 12:29

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