FileSystem Object Error

MaxD

I'm trying to fix a script that will read an external file (news.inc) which contains "pages" of HTML separated by an * on a line by itself. Each page is 7 lines long. The script reads and displays only the first 3 entries.

This is my script: (starting at line 16)

<?php
	$n = fopen ("news.inc", "r")	// file handle
	$p = 3			// number of entries to display at once
	$b = 0			// number of entires displayed so far
	$l = "*"			// separator
	$o = ""			// line buffer

while ($b < $p) {
  $o = fgets($n, 4096);
  if (o$ = $l):
    $b = $b + 1;
    $o = "";
  endif;
  echo o$;
}
fclose ($n);
?>

this is my error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/lundyar/public_html/max/news.php on line 20

whats the problem here?

bad76

Hi,
; are not an optional

$p = 3 is $p = 3;

and you wrote o$ instead of $o...

echo o$;

MaxD

Ok, wow, that was really dumb of me. I guess I'd been staring at the code for too long... My problem now is that I can get the script to print the bits of "news.inc" into the page.. any suggestions?

the code:

<?php
//      News Article Display System - Front Page Module
//	-----------------------------------------------
	$n = fopen ("news.inc", "r");	// file handle
	$p = 3;				// number of entries to display at once
	$b = 0;				// number of entires displayed so far
	$l = "*";			// separator
	$o = "";			// line buffer
        $a = "";
//
while ($b < $p) {
  $o = fgets($n, 4096);
  if ($o = $l):
    $b = $b + 1;
    $o = "";
  endif;
  $a = $a . $o;
}
fclose ($n);
?>

and in the document...

<?php echo $a; ?>

Thanks!

MaxD

ok, i'm having no luck with this.
my strategy seems to work in theory:

while the article count is less than 3 read a line.
if the line is an * then add 1 to the article count
if not then print the line
repeat

does that sound right?

why does this script print absolutely nothing?


$n = fopen ("news.inc", "r"); // file handle
$p = 3; // number of articles to display all together
$b = 0; // number of articles displayed so far
$l = "*"; // separator
$o = ""; // line contents

while ($b < $p) {
  $o = fgets($n, 4096);
  if ($o = $l):
    $b = $b + 1;
  else:
    echo $o;
  endif;
}
fclose ($n);

any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,