File cutting

[Brentley_11]

I'm new to programming in PHP and I have been working on a script to automatically modify my index.html file without actually editing it. The problem is I need it to automatically check if the number of articles is equal to 5 or less and if over send everything under the 5th article to the archived.html file.

It creates a comment called <!--End of Article--> at the end of every article so I was thinking maybe there was a way to count all the comments and once the number reached 5 save the line number in a variable and then send everything under that line to the archived.html file. The thing is I don't know how to do that.

So can anyone tell me a script or at least send me in the right direction?

Thank you for your time.

[Weedpacket]

If you've got your file in an array - one line per element, as per what you get out of the file() function...

Loop through the $array (foreach ($array as $linenumber=>$line)), keeping count of the number of times strpos($line, '<!--End of Article-->')!==false. When that gets to 5 , the current $line (number $linenumber) carries the end of the 5th article on the page. Everything above this line is kept, everything below this line is archived (modulo headers and footers) and the stuff on this current line depends on how lines wrap around in the file.

[Brentley_11]

Thank you, it worked great. I had to do a bit of modifications with my script but things are working great now.