Example
Filename: total-votes.src
<html> <!-- File: total-votes.php. Total votes from file votes.txt --> <head> <title>Voting Machine1 Example</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles.css" /> </head> <body> <h2>Record Votes Example</h2> <table border="1" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td>Candidate</td> <td>Votes</td> </tr> <?php $mickey = 0; $donald = 0; $tweety = 0; $fin = fopen("votes.txt", "rb"); while($line = fgets($fin, 100)) { $fields = explode(",", $line); if (trim($fields[1]) == "mickey") $mickey++; elseif (trim($fields[1]) == "donald") $donald++; elseif (trim($fields[1]) == "tweety") $tweety++; } echo "<tr><td>Mickey</td> <td>$mickey</td></tr>\n"; echo "<tr><td>Donald</td> <td>$donald</td></tr>\n"; echo "<tr><td>Tweety</td> <td>$tweety</td></tr>"; ?> </table> </body> </html>