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August 2nd, 2002, 08:08 PM

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I updated Matt's News Feed, but...

I just updated Matt's news feed, but I'm having a problem. My requirements say I CANNOT use a database, so I'm going with flat text files. I only want to display the 5 most recent entires on the front page. The system is completely functional, but I don't like the way I'm getting the five posts. I've included, the code below, but the site can be seen and tried at http://firsttube.com/build - the password is "password" without quotes.

Can someone help me come up with something better than a session var to do this?

-Adam

php Code:

Original - php Code

 
<?php
// create a new session
session_start();
// register a session-variable
session_register("newslimit");
// Assign a value to the session-variable
$newslimit = "0";
//news archive
$archive = "allnews.php";
?>
<html>
<center>
 
<a href="admin.php"><font face=tahoma size=2>to admin</font></a><p>
<table width=640>
<?php
 
    $display = (str_replace("_"," ",$author));
    echo "<TR><TH align=center bgcolor=#003366><font face=tahoma color=#c0c0c0 size=2>";
    echo "Last 5 items submitted <a href=allnews.php>";
    echo "<font color=white>(view news archive)</font></a>";
    echo "</TH></TR>"; 
 
$data = file("news.txt");
$data = array_reverse($data);
foreach($data as $element) {
    $element = trim($element);
    $slashpieces = explode("|", $element);
    $pieces[0] = stripslashes($slashpieces[0]); 
    $pieces[1] = stripslashes($slashpieces[1]); 
    $pieces[2] = stripslashes($slashpieces[2]); 
    $pieces[3] = stripslashes($slashpieces[3]); 
    $fullname = (str_replace(" ","_",$pieces[1]));
if ($newslimit < 5) {
        echo "<TR><td align=center bgcolor=#EFEFEF><font color=#000000 size=2 face=tahoma><b>" . $pieces[2];            
        echo "</b></td></tr>";
        echo "<td bgcolor=#c0c0c0 align=center><font size=2 color=#003366 face=tahoma>Posted by <B>";
        echo "<a href=$archive?author=$fullname>" . $pieces[1] . "</a>";
        echo "</b> on " . $pieces[0];
        echo " in the <b><a href=$archive?showcat=$pieces[3]>" . $pieces[3] . "</a></b> categoryn"; 
        echo "</TD></TR>"; } 
$newslimit++;
}  
session_unregister("newslimit"); 
session_destroy();
?> 
</table>
</html>

August 2nd, 2002, 08:14 PM

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RE: I updated Matt's News Feed, but...

PS. If anyone wants, I will provide the complete code to the rest of the newslog, not just the display page.

August 2nd, 2002, 08:25 PM

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RE: I updated Matt's News Feed, but...

maybe, this tutorial will help?

August 2nd, 2002, 09:19 PM

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RE: I updated Matt's News Feed, but...

Hmmm....I saw that tutorial. I just wanted to do something less dynamic. I think the problem is that it really begs for a foreach loop AND a while loop. It's a small single script that has some options and if statements, and this works...I was just hoping that I could avoid using a session.

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