# \[PHP\] Reading Text from file

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**Created:** [February 17, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-reading-text-from-file/179214 "2006-02-17T18:18:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-reading-text-from-file/179214/1 "2006-02-17T18:18:06Z")

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Hi, I really don’t know how to go about this problem: :ne:

I have a .txt file formatted like this:

Fruit  
Apple pear orange etc…

Vegitable  
Carrot Pea etc…

(the space indicates set of details)

How would I go about it, so when the user selects “Fruit” the PHP file looks for the word Fruit, and takes the next line and puts it into the veriable $a or somthing.

I think it would use some kind of, Foreach(); command but I don’t know how it would only take out the next line and put that into a variable.

thanks for all your help 🙂