Discarding with PHP?

[henrip]

I've got text like this in $test:

<p>some news<br>2.5.2001</p>
<p>another news<br>2.5.2001</p>
<p>more news<br>2.4.2001</p>
<p>something else news<br>2.4.2001</p>

How can i discard lines 3 and 4 with old news?

[terje-s]

First of all, you should read the manual pages on arrays. Replacing text in a single string is hard and messy to work with.

$test = array();
$text[0] = "text 1";
$text[1] = "text 2";
$text[2] = "text 3";

then you can easily replace one entry by just setting it again. Look into itteration (foreach) in the php manual.

[henrip]

Only broblem is it must be automated. I got script like this:

<?php
$test = fopen("http://saunalahti.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/index.html", "r");
if (!$test) {

echo "<p>Ei pysty.</p>\n";

exit;

}
while (!feof ($test)) {

$test2 = fgets($test, 1024);
$test3 = strstr ($test2, '<div class=otsikkonosto>');

$test3 = ereg_replace('<a href="', '<a href="http://saunalahti.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/', $test3);
$test3 = ereg_replace('otsikkonosto', 'uutisotsikko', $test3);
echo $test3;
}
fclose ($test);
?>

There must be some way to discard news with old date.
If you know some way how to get only 5 first lines or something similar, let me know.