Question: I am using file\_get\_contents() to import a text file.
In the text file, the format goes as below (example):

3434,83,8732722  

834,93,4983293  

9438,43933,34983  

and so forth... basically it follows the pattern: integer, comma to split it, second integer, another comma to split it, third integer, then a new line begins. I need to get this into a table with the format following accordingly. So in other words, I would have a 3 column table and each new line in the text file would be a new row in the table.

This must be transcoded into a simple html table with <table> <tr> and <td>

I have never worked with multidimensional arrays and splitting text with that. This is why I'm seeking assistance. I really appreciate it! :)

Answer: 
You can do following :

```
$filename = 'abc.txt';
$content = file_get_contents($filename);
$explodedByBr = explode('<br/>', $content);
$table = "<table border='1'>";
foreach ($explodedByBr as $brExplode) {
  $explodedByComma = explode(',', $brExplode);

  $table .= "<tr>";
  foreach ($explodedByComma as $commaExploded) {
    $table .= "<td>" .$commaExploded. "</td>";
  }
  $table .= "<tr/>";
}
$table .= "</table>";

echo $table;

```

abc.txt has data in following format :

3434,83,8732722   

834,93,4983293   

9438,43933,34983
Try this:

Read the file into an array and then column'ize it by processing each line of the array by passing it through `array_walk`.

```
<?php
function addElements( &$v, $k ) {
    $v1 = explode( ',', $v ); // break it into array
    $v2 = '';
    foreach( $v1 as $element ) {
        $v2 .= '<td>'.$element.'</td>';
            // convert each comma separated value into a column
    }
    $v = '<tr>'.$v2.'</tr>'; // add these columns to a row and return
}

// read the whole file into an array using php's file method.
$file = file( '1.txt' );
// now parse each line of the array so that we convert each line into 3 columns.
// For this, i use array_walk function which calls a function, addElements, 
// in this case to process each element in the array.
array_walk( $file, 'addElements' );
?>
<html>
     <head></head>
     <body>
         <table border="0">
             <?php echo implode('',$file);?>
         </table>
     </body>
</html>

```

Hope it helps. See the php doc for `file` and `array_walk`. These are simple and convenient functions.