Announcements on a website

G-Rard_B · Worker Joined: Sep 01, 2004 Posts: 105

Hey! I am working on a website (InstantPolitics.us). My dad and I are going to be administrators. We have a phpBB forum and an upcoming chat (FlashChat). I wanted to make it easy for my dad and I to post announcements on the home page (like in PHP-Nuke). I didn't want to use MySQL for that so I'm storing everything in a .txt file. The script works perfectly. I just have 2 questions.

How do you make it so that the new announcements are placed on top of the old ones? I'm assuming I'll have to work with Arrays, but I'm not sure

Also, how do you make it so that only the latest announcements (5 for example) are placed on the home page?

Thaks,
Gerard

G-Rard_B · Worker Joined: Sep 01, 2004 Posts: 105

Nobody? I think I have to put each line as an array, and then use the arsort() function and cut out some of the file so that only 5 lines show. I've been trying and this is what I've come up with. It only shows "1" where I want it to show the announcements....

Code:

$thefile = "announce.txt";
$open = fopen($thefile, "r");
if($open){
$data = file($thefile);
$getline = explode("</center>", $data);
$announce = arsort($getline);
print "$announce";
}
fclose($open);

If you must know, each line nds with "</center>" which is why I used it in the explode() function.

Thanks,
Gerard