Pipes

Hello again gurus. Thanks for your help last time. I managed to fix the problem. Try as I might though, I have been unable to crack this extension to a MySQL/PHP script that queries the database (all fine), and tried to search through all of the returned records and search for the most used words (of more than 3 letters). Every time I try this out, I get no results in the output, but there are no error messages. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It's probably something simple that i'm overlooking but it's driving me mad! thanks in advance. Andy [code]<?php function most_used_words_cloud() {   // display most used words   // set global variable, so we can test later if this is on the page               $sql = "SELECT quote FROM quotes";       $result = mysql_query($sql);                 /**              * If we got here, we know that the $result variable              * contains a resource identifier through which              * we can loop through the rows returned and              * display the row fields              */              $unique_words = array();     while ($record = mysql_fetch_array($result))     {            $words = preg_split("/[\W]+/", $record[1]);          foreach ($words as $word) {          /** weed out words that are fewer than three letters long */               if (strlen($word) < 3) {continue;}  if (array_key_exists($word, $unique_words)) {           /** shorthand for increasing value of $word by one if $word exists in $unique_words */           $unique_words[$word]++;                              }             else {           /** initialize the counter to 1 for this word */           $unique_words[$word] = 1;                               // converts number of occurrences into big/small font   $num_words = count($unique_words);      $unique_word_keys = array_keys($unique_words);           foreach ($unique_word_keys as $unique_word_value) {          $num_occurrences = $unique_words[$unique_word_value];          //if ($num_occurrences < 10) continue;          $size = 10 + ($num_occurrences / 2);                        echo "<span style=\"font-size: $size\">$unique_word_value</span> &nbsp;";    }                                               }}}}?>[/code] sorry about the rubbish strange marks as tabs, don't know how to get rid of them.

I know this is probably a hugely simple thing for an experienced programmer to see, but I'm just not at the moment...basically I've got a file of quotes that are split in the .txt file as so: "Quote in quotations then" - Author <<<<< I would like to write a script that splits the authors from the quotes. Here is where I'm at: [code]$quotesfile = "http://localhost/projects/quotes_list/quotes.txt"; $handle = fopen($quotesfile, 'rb'); $quotes = fread($handle, 1024); $pattern = '/\"[A-Za-z0-9]\"/'; $quotes = preg_split($pattern, $quotes); print_r($quotes);[/code] This prints out as follows: Array ( [0] => "We're going to go pull the call girl cards out of phone boxes." - Lisa Pruden "I think I left lippy on you." - Olga Bof "In the end I just pretended to take it, and then spat it out later" - Sasha Breslau "He likes a bit of chav." - Lauren Dunn "She responds well to Toblerone." - Stephen Hardingham "Everything in the world is on my little pink stick." - Jon Holmes "I'm not sure I want a wanking cat on a Friday afternoon." - Dom Eames "I like the idea of extreme cunninglingus." - Mandy Pollard "I'm trying to think of a retort to say I've got a huge cock, but I can't." - Scott Dingley "It's a man's place Lelia. It's supposed to be dirty." - Jon Salt "Do you want me to sit on you?" - Emma Williams "I don't dream about badgers." - Mark Limb "Did no-one see I just punched that girl? I feel like a wife beater." - Jon Salt The quotes list says goodbye to Paul "temple of meat" Sigaloff. Here are Paul's best bits: "I have to manage my own expectations." "Ok good - let's have a meeting, but don't ) I have tried a couple variations of a while and foreach loop, but each time I try one, I get no results at all. Either I get : Array ( [0] => ) or there are no results whatever. Can anyone let me know how to use the preg_split better so as to store the quotes and authors into the keys and values of an array, so that I can work with them more easily? Any advice greatly appreciated!  :-\ Andy

Thanks Ken: sorry should have mentioned line 15 is the one that begins $quotestxt = '$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt'; I have now changed this to double quotes, but the problem persists. The location and path is correct (I created a short variable name for the server path above this code.) so I don't know what variable problems to be looking for?? Thanks for trying to help. best, Andy

Hello: I'm a complete novice trying to split a file of quotations into quotes and authors (it's a .txt file). I've written this short simple script but i'm getting an error message. [code]$quotestxt = '$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt'; $quotes_file = fopen($quotestxt, 'r+'); while (fread($quotes_file, 1024)) { $pattern = '^[\"]'; $quote_roster = preg_match($pattern, $quotes_file); print_r($quote_roster); } [/code] Th error message is telling me: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in C:\XXXX\separate_quotes_from_authors.php on line 15 can anyone tell me what I should looking for? i've tried the manual, but I can't seem to help myself. It's driving me mad! any help appreciated! Pipes