RE: File opening, writting and location

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php <http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php> everything you need is here, in particular fgets. What you'll need is something like ... If ($fhandle = fopen("filename", "r")) { while ($fline = fgets($fhandle) && ++$count < $X) { echo($fline); } } this is untested but should work Tim www.chessish.com <http://www.chessish.com> ---------- From: RRNews [SMTP:GNOVAK@wi.rr.com] Sent: 03 January 2002 03:20 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: File opening, writting and location I'm a newbie to PHP and the web. I've been programming in VB for about 3 years and XBase for about 15. I would like to place a bunch of text files in a directory and have a PHP script pick them up and place the top X lines in a center section of a page followed by a MORE link. It would do this for Y number of articles. The remainder it would title with the first x characters and place it on the right of the screen (like an archive) I know that I can use a function similar to fopen in XBase to access the text files and extract the lines. In Xbase, I would traverse the directory, extract the lines, place the X characters in a string followed by a "More". If anyone can steer me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. I don't get how you place things on the page in a given area. I'm using Dreamweaver 4 templates. Anyone have any suggestions..... Thanks in advance... Jerry