print first 10 lines of a text file

chrislive

ok i have a text file that contains all of my news in it.

filename is news.txt

I would like to have the the news accessed from two places.

first of all a LATEST NEWS section and a NEWS section on my site.

the latest news will online print the last say 10 items in the news. Each news item takes up one line.

this is my news.php file that will read the news.txt file... this works but i only want the first 10 lines.

<?php
$data = file('news/news.txt');
$data = array_reverse($data);


foreach($data as $element) {

$element = trim($element);
$pieces = explode("|", $element);

print "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">";			
echo "<tr><td style=\"border:1px #ffffff dotted\" onmouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#cccccc';\" onmouseout=\"this.style.backgroundColor='transparent';\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" color=\"FF0000\"><b>" . $pieces[1] . "</b></font><BR><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\" color=\"333333\"><em>" . $pieces[0] . "</em></font><BR><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" color=\"000000\">" . "" . $pieces[2] . "</font></td></tr>";
print "</table>";
}
?>

Please help 😃

thanks

tekky

rather than using foreach here... I would suggest a simple for loop

<?php
$data = file('news/news.txt');
$data = array_reverse($data);
$max = 10; //number of rows you want
for($i=0;$i<$max;$i++) {

$element = trim($data[$i]);
$pieces = explode("|", $element);

print "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">";			
echo "<tr><td style=\"border:1px #ffffff dotted\" onmouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#cccccc';\" onmouseout=\"this.style.backgroundColor='transparent';\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" color=\"FF0000\"><b>" . $pieces[1] . "</b></font><BR><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\" color=\"333333\"><em>" . $pieces[0] . "</em></font><BR><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" color=\"000000\">" . "" . $pieces[2] . "</font></td></tr>";
print "</table>";
}
?>

that should work... may have to change the for to $max+1....

chrislive

hmmm still prints everything... you said may have to change the for to max... what do you mean?

chrislive

ahh got it... changed max to maxr and it worked THANKS!!!