note 27470 modified in function.fopen by danbrown

I just used explode() as an alternative to fscanf, since my only delimiter was | (pipe). I was having problems with it, since I use it in my news-management script. I found that it cut the last variable I was using, $body, a bit short when I posted a long news post. This would've been a real problem for anybody trying to make news posts longer than a paragraph or so. However, I found that when I used: <?php list($variable1, $variable2, etc) = explode("|",$data); ?> it didn't cut any variables short, so.. what I'm really trying to say here is that for people who are experiencing problems with parsing simple files (i.e with only a single, simple delimiter such as : or |) using the unecessarily complex fscanf() and sscanf() functions, explode() is definately the way to go. <?php function get_news($filepath, $newsid) { $datafile = fopen("$filepath/news/$newsid.txt","r"); $data = fread($datafile, 1000000); list($author, $email, $date, $subject, $body) = explode("|",$data); $body = stripslashes("$body"); $subject = stripslashes("$subject"); echo "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$author</a> -- $date -- $subject<hr>$body<p>"; } ?> sample file: AdministratorMax|admin@example.com|Tuesday, March 5th @ 5:45 PM EST|Site Going Down Tomarrow|Well, folks, I\'m sorry to say that the site will indeed be down tomarrow for most of the day. Hang in there. Output: <a href="mailto:admin@example.com">AdministratorMax</a> -- Tuesday, March 5th -- Site Going Down Tomarrow<hr>Well, folks, I'm sorry to say that the site will indeed be down tomarrow for most of the day. Hang in there. Thought that might be useful for anybody making a simple news-management script, ;) By the way, feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes - I'm at my dad's work where I don't really have a way to check to see if it works or not. However, I use a more complex version of this on my portal project, and it works beautifully. --was-- I just used explode() as an alternative to fscanf, since my only delimiter was | (pipe). I was having problems with it, since I use it in my news-management script. I found that it cut the last variable I was using, $body, a bit short when I posted a long news post. This would've been a real problem for anybody trying to make news posts longer than a paragraph or so. However, I found that when I used: list($variable1, $variable2, etc) = explode("|",$data); it didn't cut any variables short, so.. what I'm really trying to say here is that for people who are experiencing problems with parsing simple files (i.e with only a single, simple delimiter such as : or |) using the unecessarily complex fscanf() and sscanf() functions, explode() is definately the way to go. function get_news($filepath, $newsid) { $datafile = fopen("$filepath/news/$newsid.txt","r"); $data = fread($datafile, 1000000); list($author, $email, $date, $subject, $body) = explode("|",$data); $body = stripslashes("$body"); $subject = stripslashes("$subject"); echo "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$author</a> -- $date -- $subject<hr>$body<p>"; } sample file: AdministratorMax|admin@somesite.com|Tuesday, March 5th @ 5:45 PM EST|Site Going Down Tomarrow|Well, folks, I\'m sorry to say that the site will indeed be down tomarrow for most of the day. Hang in there. Output: <a href="mailto:admin@somesite.com">AdministratorMax</a> -- Tuesday, March 5th -- Site Going Down Tomarrow<hr>Well, folks, I'm sorry to say that the site will indeed be down tomarrow for most of the day. Hang in there. Thought that might be useful for anybody making a simple news-management script, ;) By the way, feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes - I'm at my dad's work where I don't really have a way to check to see if it works or not. However, I use a more complex version of this on my portal project, and it works beautifully. http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php