php数组中的.txt文件没有显示/ Apache 500错误

Question

I'm tring to read in the text file found here: http://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/use/bia13.txt

It's a tab delimited list of shortwave radio broadcast schedules that I want to stuff into a MySQL database. I'm able to download it and get it into an array. A var_dump shows it's all there. However...

$schedule=file('schedule.txt');
foreach($schedule as $line)
{
   echo $line.'<br>';
}

Only shows the last line of the file.

for ($i; $i<=count($schedule);$i++)
{
   echo $schedule[$i];
}

generates an Apache 500 internal server error (premature end of script headers).

but, if I do this:

echo $schedule[0];

It properly displays that line.

So, I'm assuming somewhere in the array are some unprintable or control characters that are giving Apache fits.

I have done:

$bigstring=json_encode($schedule);
$schedule=$json_decode($bigstring);

that allows me to do a foreach on $schedule and it prints it out

and I have have tried in the foreach to:

echo utf8_decode($line).'<br>';

and that lets me run a foreach and it displays the lines but both these 'working' solutions strip out the tabs/spacing I need to break the lines into fields.

Any ideas on how I can either load this differently into an array that I can do a foreach on and parse it or is there a good way to show what control/character codes might be causing the crashes/hiccups?

Thanks

Answer 1

I might be missing something but in the for loop shouldn't you initialize $i to a value? The following worked for me to display the contents of the file:

$schedule = file("bia13.txt");
$count = count($schedule);
echo "<pre>";
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
    echo $schedule[$i];
}    
echo "</pre>";

My webhost gives me an Apache 500 error whenever PHP runs into a fatal error. That could possibly be where your error comes from.