Re: SOLUTION: Final version of news reader.

Just curious, wouldn't it be easier to do it with a XML parser? (I am not a XML person) Jesus Climent wrote: > How to read news from a file with the format: > > <noticia> > Title|other_data_for_your_information > text > text > more_text > <end> > <noticia> > _same-format_ > <end> > > the open_table() , titulo() , fin() and close_table() are just functions > to control the table structure. > > Thanks for you help. > > daTa > > <? > function read_news() { > > $filename = "./noticias.data"; > $contents = file ($filename); > > open_table(); > > $lines = count($contents); > > for ($j = 0; $j < $lines ; $j++) { > if ($contents[$j] == "<noticia>\n") { > print("$contents[$j]"); > $not_done = 1; > for ($line = 1; $not_done; $line++) { > if (($contents[$j + $line] == "<noticia>\n") || ($line > $lines)) { > $not_done = 0; > } else { > $good_line = $contents[$j + $line]; > $datos = explode("|", $good_line); > titulo($datos[0]); > $body = 1; > for ($line = $line+1 ; $body; $line++) { > if (ereg("<end>", $contents[$j + $line])) { > $body=0; > } else { > $body_text = $contents[$j + $line]; > print("$body_text"); > } > } > fin(); > $not_done = 0; > } > } > } > } > close_table(); > } > ?> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net