PHP News FIFO?

Anon

How would I go about creating a PHP news script (with admin interface to add/edit/delete), but that only stores & displays the last x entries? Preferrably in flatfile and not MySQL?

Any help would be greatly apreciated

Anon

Be more specific? Why not just use a news script written in perl? There are tons of automated ones all over the place. 😉 (Check out google)

If you are set on doing one in PHP, be more specific with your question, what are you wanting to know how to do? The entire thing?

😉

Anon

Not so much the entire thing, most of it is basic (and I do have a pl script for it already, I just want to do a PHP version).

I think I have everything else covered except for deleting records higher than (for example) 7 entries into the flatfile. (With the pl script, I used a type of FIFO method, but I can't seem to get the PHP version of it down.) If there are 6 entries in the file, and I add a seventh, I want the script to do nothing, but if there are 7 and I add 8, I want the oldest one to bump off and the 8th one to become the first entry...see where I'm going?

Anon

Yeah, I see what you mean.

So, you don't want an archive?

What are your reasons for not wanting to use mysql? (No mysql server??)

All the stuff you have listed is pretty easy (especially with PHP).

Open the file, count the number of row returns (each entry would have to be on a line, NO line breaks).

And just put each line into an array. Then use that Array for all the stuff you want to do, manipulation, deletion etc. Then just output the array to the text file.

The automated deletion is easy with this, just count the array, if it has more than 7 (8, start counting from 0) keys, delete the oldest.

If you would like more help with this, I don't mind putting a little time forward with you. 😉

Lemme know if you have ICQ, AIM, MSN, YIM etc. We can talk and we'll get this worked out.

-Travis