html lists - PHP echo to li table from input text file -

i have input user method post , place input text file. separated semicolon (;). , each new input makes new line in text file. want read input text file , echo out li in html. having problems echo right way.

here input php-code:

    <?php     if (isset($_post["submit"])) {         $title = $_post['movietitle'];         $rating = $_post['movieratings'];         $plot = $_post['plot'];      $handle = fopen('movies.txt', 'a');     $names_array = array("$title","$rating","$plot");     $string = implode(';', $names_array);     fwrite($handle, $string."\n");               fclose($handle);     }        ?> 

this code above works fine, problem mentioned below when read text file.

 <ul class="movies" id="movies">   $filename = 'movies.txt';      $handle = fopen($filename, 'r');      $datain = fread($handle, filesize($filename));       $names_array = explode(';', $datain);      foreach($names_array $name)     {     echo '<li>'.$name.'</li>';     }     ?>     </ul> 

this echo's out reading file in new line. this:

<li>movie title1</li> <li>movie ratings1</li> <li>plot 1</li> <li>movie title2</li> <li>movie ratings2</li> <li>plot 2</li> <li>movie title3</li> <li>movie ratings3</li> <li>plot 3</li> 

i want have same li line every line text file, this:

<li>movie title1, movieratings1, plot1</li> <li>movie title2, movieratings2, plot2</li> <li>movie title3, movieratings3, plot3</li> 

etc. new php, not arrays , loops in php. thank in advance!

you should explode() file on newlines "\n" first. loop through array , in inner loop, explode() on semicolons. this:

$lines = explode("\n", $datain); foreach($lines $line){     list($title,$ratings,$plot) = explode(";", $line, 3);     // echo <li>s $title,$ratings,$plot here } 

it worth looking php's fgetcsv() , fputcsv() functions, designed doing manually.