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1. From text file to Array to Multi-Column display

Step 1: Create a text file and name it tags.txt
Step 2: Add about 20 items to the tags.txt file ( 1 per line )
Step 3: Copy the php code below into a new file named test.php
Step 4: Upload tags.txt and test.php to your server
Step 5: Goto the url where you uploaded the 2 files to test...

<?php
// Setup
$number_of_columns = '4';          //the number of columns
$tags_filename = 'tags.txt';       //the tags file location
$table_width = '100%';             //can be a number or percent like: 100%
$table_column_width = '25%';       //can be a number or percent like: 33% ( 33% is based on 3 columns! )
$table_cellpadding = '10';         //the padding within each table columns


// Get text file contents into an array
$menu_array = @file($tags_filename);

// If tags file is not empty, continue...
if(is_array($menu_array)){
	
	// Get a count of how many items are in the array
	$total_items = count($menu_array);
	
	// Get number of items per column
	$items_per_column = ceil($total_items / $number_of_columns);
	
	// Split array into multi-arrays
	$menu_array_columns = array_chunk($menu_array, $items_per_column);
	
	// Create table columns
	foreach($menu_array_columns as $column_array){
		
		// Create table column start tag & width
		$table_columns .= '<td width="'.$table_column_width.'">'."\n";
		
		// Create item list for each table column
		foreach($column_array as $item){
			$item = trim($item);
			$table_columns .=  '<a href="#">'.$item.'</a><br>'."\n";
		}
		
		// Create table column end tag
		$table_columns .= '</td>'."\n";
	}
	
	// Create final table for display
	$menu = '
	<table border="0" cellpadding="'.$table_cellpadding.'" width="'.$table_width.'">
		<tr valign="top">
			'.$table_columns.'
		</tr>
	</table>
	';
}

echo $menu;
?>

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