Here is a function which reads the text file and creates combo in a way it puts each line text as a combo box entry.
so usage of thes function in yoru script will be so simple, because this function requires only two arguments as filename, and object name and returns a combo box. (object name is the combo variable name in html and taht will be recieved in php script)
usage in your script
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<?
include "db_txt2combo.php";
......
......
......
$mycom = db_txt2combo("test.txt","combo1");
echo $mycom;
//or simply
echo db_txt2combo("test.txt","combo1");
......
......
?>
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now copy following code and save it as 'db_txt2combo.php' in the same folder where your script is :
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<?
function db_txt2combo($filename,$cname) {
$arr=file($filename);
$ret="<select name='$cname'>";
for($i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++) {
$entry=$arr[$i];
$entry = str_replace("\n","",$entry);
$entry = str_replace("\r","",$entry);
$entry = trim($entry);
$val=$i+1;
$ret .= "<option value=$val>$entry</option>";
}
$ret .= "</select>";
return $ret;
}
?>
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NOTE : The script which will recieve the form (which contains this combo), will user variable $combo1 and the value of theis variable will be the line number the user selected (as 1 2 3 4 or so so).
I hope it helps much.
Post question if any.
Download the attached file contains same example, demonstrated above.
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