Removing info from a flat file?

[Tomm]

mentor come here boy *whistles*

[:Blob]

*Gets frizbe and throws*

[Tomm]

lol hes offline we will have to wait

[splintercell!]

Ok your all super spaming and being stupid "? I have looked through other files but I cant seem to find a way of doing it if you dont know then dont answer dont just start spamming.

[:Blob]

Sorry

Umm

If the news goes to news.txt and that updates, shouldnt show_news.php point to news.txt

[splintercell!]

yes but cutenews is very different it contains lots of templates and other files so its not clear where it is "/

[Tomm]

there must be some connector somewhere but where mmm...

[Mentor]

Ok do you know how to remove info from a flat file and display it on a webpage (like cutenews).

Ok, so you mean link editing a line in a flat file, or displaying the data from the flat file?

for dispay most important things is the
file();
command, wich splits the lines and turns them in to an array.

Say to get flat file bob.txt

$arrayvariable = file("bob.txt");

Then split the varible down again

depedning on what your useing a seportaors (cute news use's |/\| i usealy use || thogh

foreach($arrayvariable as $Key => $Val)
{
//explode that data into a array
$info[$Key] = explode(",", $Val);

}

now the $info varible contains both arrays, wich you can output via a loop

for($num = 0; $num<sizeof($arrayvariable) + 1; $num++)
{
echo $info[$num][0];

}

This would dispaly the the first entry of everu line, since its changing the arry var while looping threw them all.

to show second bit $info[$num][1];

etc etc etc

if you follow?

the flat file struture in the exsample would be

user1||stuff||morestuff||
user2||stuff2||morestuff2|

etc etc

[splintercell!]

*gives mentor a gold star* Thanks Helped me alot none of the php sites seems to have it, Ive done it in mySQL before but I wanted to use a flat file to see how it works Thanks.!