Question RE explode()

[MrXander]

Hi there,

 

Wondering if someone can point out where I'm being thick...

 

Basically, I am making a news script using flatfile. Below is how the script stores the news post (this isn't the problem, keep reading)

$theNews = "";
$theNews .= 'Welcome,General,Test';
$theNews .= 'Test,General,Hmm?';

 

Then, I am trying to make a list of all news posts so that users can edit a single post if they wish. I want to seperate the news posts, so I thought of using the following code:

 

$string = "'";
$theNewsPosts = explode($string, $theNews);
$count = count($theNewsPosts);
echo $count;

But it only picks up the first line, so can anyone help?

 

Thanks.

[BlueSkyIS]

so can anyone help

 

advice: you're going to have one heck of a time doing this without a real database.

[effigy]

I second the database comment.

 

What is the format of the data exactly? Are there titles to the posts, or just posts? Are single posts always in single quotes?

[MrXander]

I second the database comment.

 

What is the format of the data exactly? Are there titles to the posts, or just posts? Are single posts always in single quotes?

I agree with the database comment, but I know a lot of people who don't have a clue about databases, so I thought I'd make something to help.

Anyway, the format?

 

ex: $theNews .= 'Welcome,General,Test';

"Welcome" = The title

"General" = The category it's posted in

"Test" = The body of the post

[BlueSkyIS]

if each news article will have it's own line in the file, use file() to read the file into an array, one line in each element.

 

http://us.php.net/file

 

Then you could loop over all of them exploding on comma, but watch out for commas in the title, category and body.