Links in txt files

InfinityDesigns

Hi,

I have a php file that reads a txt file and outputs it into neat tbales and formats the text nicely, it goes something like this,

<?
echo '<html>
<body bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#D0CFCA">
<tr> 
<td align="left">
<strong>
<font size="1" face="Arial">';
PRINT "Infinity Designs news feed.";
echo '
</font>
</strong>
</td>
</tr>';
//set variables
$news = file("scripts/news.txt");
//make news
foreach($news as $mynews) {
        $mynews = addslashes($mynews);
        $title = strtok($mynews,"¶");
        $date = strtok("¶");
        $text = strtok("¶");

echo '<tr><td bgcolor="#E1E1DD"><font size="1" color="#4D7752" face="Arial"><b>';
PRINT "$title";
echo '</b></font><br><font size="1" face="Arial"><b>';
PRINT "$text";
echo '</b></font><br><font size="1" color="#4D7752" face="Arial">';
PRINT "$date";
echo'</font></td></tr><tr><td height="5" bgcolor="#D0CFCA" face="Arial"></td></tr>';
}
?>

What I was wondering is how can I get a link in the text file to work and go to a remote page like [url]http://www,phpbuilder.com[/url] or something. Whatever I try doesn't work, any help would be grately appreciated. Thanks

demonicfoetus

I'm not entirly sure of what you are saying but i'll take a guess.

If u want a link to some further content on your news loaded from the text file, just add another variable to the txt file called $URL or something like that. Then it would be read by your loop.
When you come to printing $URL simply put:

echo "<a href=\"$URL">Click here for more info</a></p>";
[\php]

That way when the link is clicked it will take the user to $URL 

Hope this helps
-DF

feldon23

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10227265