php从网站读取列表到数组

Question

I have a list of products codes that i wish to read into an array using php.

the list is to be fetched from a website and has over 700 items looks something like this:

4310ABC
4590DEF
8950GHK

What i want to do is put every code into a php array like so:

php_array ( [0] => 4310ABC 
            [1] => 4590DEF 
            [2] => 8950GHK)

This is what i have:

$php_array = file_get_contents('http://anysite.net/product_codes.php');
print_r (explode("
",$php_array));

But my result is :

Array ( [0] => 4310ABC
               4590DEF
               8950GHK)

I have tried explode, preg_split('/[ ]+/', $php_array); but nothing seems to do the trick. Can anyone give me some pointers? thanks!

Answer 1

The lines are separated by a br, so use this instead:

$php_array = file_get_contents('http://anysite.net/product_codes.php');
print_r (explode("<br>",$php_array));

Don't forget to change the br to however it's spelled within the document you are fetching, for example it's often spelled like this:

<br />

Which is the most correct way to write it.