[SOLVED] Why doesn't this code work??

[nicob]

 

I have a list with 1000 tips and I want to show only 10 lines at a time. As I don't want to show the same 10 lines, I shuffle the list. But my code is not working

 

<?php

$file = file_get_contents('tips.txt');
$data = explode("",$file);

shuffle($data);
$newfile = implode("",$data);

echo implode("",array_slice(file("$newfile"),0,10));

?>

[Mark Baker]

Simplify things by reading the file directly into an array

$data = file('tips.txt');

 

[Mchl]

What do you expect this to do?

$data = explode("",$file);

 

 

[nicob]

@Mchl

I was using that code to split strings, but I have removed this in my new code.

 

@Mark

I made this. It shows 10 lines, BUT shuffle is not working. Maybe now I'm going the wrong direction...

 

<?php
$file = file('tips.txt');
shuffle($file);
echo implode("",array_slice(file('tips.txt'),-10,10));
?>

[wildteen88]

echo implode("",array_slice(file('tips.txt'),-10,10));

 

Should be

echo implode("",array_slice($file, -10,10));

[nicob]

You did it again, Wildteen thx everybody