PHP question

[Anon]

I am trying to add headlines to my code

I am currently looking at someone elses code and they have this

$fw = fwrite($fp, "\n[~nl~]$headline_stripped [~]$date [~]$news");

what are these doing in the script [~nl~], [~], \n in english could you please explain

also what does str_replace and stripslashes do??

thanks

[Anon]

RTM

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[Anon]

ok I think I now understand it

PHP:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$newnews = "<TABLE align=center border=0 cellPadding=1 cellSpacing=0 width=90%>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD align=center><FONT face=verdana, helvetica size=1><STRONG><div align=center><a href=\"#<$snewz_id>\">$subheading</a></div>
</STRONG></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD><FONT face=verdana, helvetica size=1>$subject<p align=right> posted on: $date by $username</FONT></TD></TR>\n";--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ok in my code I would make it so it would have to seperate the news bit by bit so i can then view each news seperatly

so in that case would I then have to use

something like this $news = "[~nl~]$subheading [~]$subject [~]$date

then I can use something like this
PHP:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<?
$news= "news.txt";
$newsfile = fopen($news, "r");
$newsdata = fread($news, filesize("$newsdata"));

---

$line = explode("[~nl~]", $newsdata);
$lastnews = sizeof($line) - "1"; - don't know what this does

 
for($i=$lastnews; $i > 0; $i--) { 
list($subheading,$date,$subject) = explode("[~]", $line[$i]); 
echo "<b>$subheading</b> - $date<br>$subject<br><br>"; 
} 
?> 

I think i know what celeron is doing here but I want to know if I am correct with adding my code into that hwo would I completely change it to suit my news code? 
thanks


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