How can I make a basic PHP scoreboard?
<p>I have some students in my class and we are working on a project where the students earn a simple point. I am recording their points manually in to a text file on my laptop and then I move that to the schools server so students can view their scores.</p>

<p>The text file is like this:</p>

<pre><code>David:1
John:3
Susan:9
Ricky:12
Liam:3
</code></pre>

<p>and so on. Each line in the text file is like that. I'm not very good with PHP as I'm a novice and I know I need to read these in to an array but then I'm not sure how I would break the score away from the students and sort it so the highest score is on top so that I can then display it on a webpage. I already have quite a large text file so I can't really reformat it. How would I separate these and display them or put them in to an array so I can then display that on a simple HTML page?</p>

<p>I think we are using PHP 5.3.13. Thank you for any assistance.</p>
