Big problem...

[TheLoveableMonty]

This is what I'm trying to do.

 

I'm trying to create a directory archiving news regarding a specific subject from different countries, arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the country.

 

It will involve opening a data file arranged as follows:

 

Source Name:~:http://www.sourcewebsite.com:~:Country

 

Essentially, it will store all three as variables in an array, check the third variable in the array (Country) to see if it matches with what's stored in a variable in an "if" loop, then print it.

 

Here's the problem though.

 

I could, and probably will have to store each country name in a separate file, exploding the file to store it as an array then going through the array and printing every item as part of the loop in alphabetical order.

 

I wanted to know if there was any other way to do what I'm trying to achieve, as this seems like if the content increased significantly in volume it would take a while to carry out.

 

Anybody get me?

 

I've brainstormed everything and this is the last real headache.

[TheLoveableMonty]

      while($i<=$arrayEnd)
      {
           $entry  =explode($separator,$filterEntries[$i]);
           $title  =$entry[0];
           $link=$entry[1];
           $country=$entry[2];
           echo "<TR><TD BGCOLOR=\"#2A338D\" VALIGN=\"top\"><FONT FACE=\"trebuchet ms\" COLOR=\"#F3B809\" SIZE=\"3\"><B>$title</FONT></B><BR>";
           echo "<A LINK=".$link.">$link</A> - $category";
           }
           echo "</FONT></TD></TR>";
           $i++;
      }

 

This is the snippet of code I'm using to display articles bit by bit.

 

I need to do what I just said with this snippet, but I can't figure the damn thing out. If I use an "if" within this loop, it simply filters the results and only displays posts under the one country mentioned.

 

I'm staring at the code and can't figure the damn thing out.

[trq]

Is there a particular reason your not using a database for this? It would make things alot simpler and much more efficient.