Re: New as of today

Look at fgets and explode. Depending on the format of your txt file you can use a combination of fgets and explode to get your desired results. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php If each picture name is on a separate line then the following will work: while (!feof($zFile)){ $buffer = fgets($zFile, 4096); echo "<a href=test.php>$buffer</a><br>"; } Justin Garrett "Stu9820" <stu9820@westga.edu> wrote in message news:3D467BF1@cliff.westga.edu... > Im new to PHP (came from ASP). I'm trying to make pictures (.jpgs) come out > of a folder and display on a page. Here is my code so far: > > <?php > $fileLoc = "Bid2002/pictures.txt"; > $zFile = fopen($fileLoc, "r"); > $zContents = fread($zFile, filesize($fileLoc)); > fclose($zFile); > echo "<a href=test.php>$zContents<br></a>"; > ?> > > I dont have database support on the server i use (school server). I have all > the picture names in a text file and i want to pull out the name of pictures > from the text file and make it pull out of the picture folder. Is there an > easier way to do this? Or is this the best way. ASP is very because you can > loop through the file and I thought I could do it with php but it ends up in > one big link. Thanks in advance. > > Jeff > UWG Student > stu9820@westga.edu >