Check this out, need some help.

[thili55]

Ok take a look at the chat.txt my chat program generates.

http://www.swgfreak.com/k/chat.txt

Now take a look at my php script that outputs the code from the text file. But my problem is the chat is reversed, and output from bottom to top. I want it output top to bottom like mIRC.

http://www.swgfreak.com/k/from.php

And here is my php code:

<?php

$arrText=file("chat.txt");
$chat="";

for ($i=count($arrText); $i>count($arrText)-50; $i--) {
$arrText[$i]=trim($arrText[$i]); $chat_from=$chat_from.$arrText[$i]."\n";
}

echo "chat_from=".$chat_from;
?> 

[WinterDragon]

Thats because in the FOR loop, you are assigning the $i the amount of values in the array, so its going to start at the bottom... then you subtract, so its only doing what it tells you... but here is how to start at top, print to the bottom..

<?php

$arrText=file("chat.txt");
$chat="";

for ($i=0; $i>count($arrText)-50; $i++) {
$arrText[$i]=trim($arrText[$i]); $chat_from=$chat_from.$arrText[$i]."<br>";
}

echo "chat_from=".$chat_from;
?> 

[thili55]

That didn't work. All it outputed was

chat_from=

[WinterDragon]

Come on man, think a lil'... ya gotta think for yourself sometime! lol

<?php

$arrText=file("chat.txt");
$chat="";

for ($i=0; $i<count($arrText)-50; $i++) {
$arrText[$i]=trim($arrText[$i]); $chat_from=$chat_from.$arrText[$i]."<br>";
}

echo "chat_from=".$chat_from;
?>

[WinterDragon]

Ok here, it shows the bottom 50, going from the least recent to the most recent. (means 50 from the bottom, to the bottom... probably the way you want it eh? although I don't have who the chat message is from here... ya go)

<?php
$chat = file("chat.txt");
$size = sizeof($chat);
if($size >= 50) {
$start = $size - 50;
} else {
$start = 0;
}
for($i=$start;$i<$size;$i++) {
echo $chat[$i] . "<Br>";
}
?>