what is wrong with this limiting code??

[Anon]

$limit = 5;

  $fcontents = "news.txt"; 

  for($i=0; $i<$limit; $i++); 

  { 

  echo "<tr><td>"; 

  echo "fwrite($fcontents)[$i]"; 

  echo "</tr></td>"; 

  }

suposedly there is a pass error here
echo "fwrite($fcontents)[$i]";

[Anon]

what exactly you are trying to do ?? you didn't even open file ..and trying to write in to it ....

[Anon]

ok then would you be able to show me how to fix it?? So that it is writing into it?

here is the whole code

//#################### Add Guides ####################//

  if ($action == "addguide") { 

  $snewzlist_filename = "guides.txt"; 

  $snewz_id = date("mdy")."-".date("gis")."-".date("B"); 



  $news_file_ok = "guides.txt"; 

  $new = "$username: $comment<br>\n"; 



  $f = fopen("$news_file_ok", "r"); 

  $old = fread($f, filesize("$news_file_ok")); 



  fclose($f); 



  $new .= $old; 



  $f = fopen("$news_file_ok", "w"); 


  fwrite($f, $new); 

fclose($f);

$limit = 5;

  $fguides = "guides.txt"; 

for($i=0; $i<$limit; $i++);

{ 

echo "<tr><td>"; 



echo "fwrite ($fguides)[$i]"; 

echo "</tr></td>"; 

} 

}
thanks

[Anon]

I am trying to make it so I can view the news like they are in headlines.

An example is http://216.118.121.28/pw/tutorials.php

I would like the headlines displayed like that???

Is it possible
thanks

[Anon]

suppose you have got a text file named "guide.txt" which contains few lines , So the code below is to display the content in a table..
<?php
$fcon= file ("guide.txt");
echo('<table bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" align="center">'."\n");
while (list ($line_number, $line) = each ($fcon))
{
echo('<tr><td bgcolor="#cccccc">'."\n");
echo('<font size="2pt" face="verdana" color="#000000">');
echo "<a href=\"yourlink.html\">$line </a> \n";
echo('</font>');
echo('</td></tr>'."\n");

}
echo('</table>'."\n");
?>

I hope it would help..
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[Anon]

1. $fguides : you never set the file to open with fopen() you do it serval other places but not before you call fwrite() in that last section of code. But that maybe besides the point

2. You mention that you want to read the information back out of the file.

   $limit = 5;
   $fguides = file("guides.txt");
   for($i=0; $i<$limit; $i++);
   {
   echo "<tr><td>";
   echo "$fguides[$i]";
   echo "</tr></td>";
   }

this will read the file into an array and allow you to loop line by line starting at the first line.

If this is not what you were looking to do, please try to clearify what it is you are trying to do in that last section of code.

[mithril]

Ok, first off.... the statement:

echo "fwrite($fcontents)[$i]";

is wrong in 2 ways. First, you can't echo the output from a function inside quotes. When you try to, PHP interprests it as a string instead of a function call. Second, you've mis-placed the closing bracket of the fwrite function. It should read:

fwrite($fcontents[$i]);

I don't understand why you're trying to echo the results of fwrite(). It returns boolean true or false, typically not something you echo to the screen. Exactly what are you trying to acheive with this code? Are you trying to write new headlines to a file, or print existing headlines to the screen?

-geoff

[Anon]

now I am just checking is this to display the news in a headline type way like the articles on the left hand side of the page??
thanks

[Anon]

I hnk tt is what I am after, I will just ckeck though.

Basically it is just o show the news in a headline lik the articles are shown on the left hand side of the epage
thanks

[Anon]

no what I want to do is make a link for every headline

EG
<a href="#">news headline1</a>
<a href="#">news headline2</a>
<a href="#">news headline3</a>
<a href="#">news headline4</a>

on a seperate page and that headline will link to the specific news item.

http://216.118.121.28/snewznew/docode.php?action=addnews is the code you gave me which works
thanks