Modifying a tour dates script

dcastady

http://www.thefoldmusic.com/shows.php

At that link, you'll see I have a fully functional PHP script happily displaying tour dates from today and forward which have been entered into a folder on my server called "fold/"

Now, I'd also like to have a page that displays only PAST events. But when I do what would seem obvious, I get all kinds of strange errors. Can someone help me change the script below to successfully display all PAST events?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

                                  <?php 

$date = date("Ymd"); 
$dir = "fold";  

$handle=opendir($dir); 
while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { 
    $d = substr($file,0,8);
    if ($d >= $date) { 
        $events[$d] = file_get_contents($dir."/".$file); 
    } 
} 
closedir($handle); 

ksort($events); 

foreach ($events as $event) {
    list($date,$location,$info) = explode("||",$event);
    print
"<tr><td>".$date."</td><td>".$location."</td><td>".$info."</td></tr>";
unset($events);
}

?>

Phodetheus

Now, I'd also like to have a page that displays only PAST events. But when I do what would seem obvious, I get all kinds of strange errors. Can someone help me change the script below to successfully display all PAST events?

Your script looks straight forward enough. What are the errors you are getting?

Phodetheus

dcastady

Yes, that script works just fine, but I would need to modify it to make it print PAST SHOWS only. You can see my attempt to do that (along with a slew of strange characters) at: http://www.thefoldmusic.com/oldshows.php

Here is the code that I attempted to modify, really I just changed the line about "if ($d <= $date)"

                                  <?php 

$date = date("Ymd"); 
$dir = "fold";  

$handle=opendir($dir); 
while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { 
    $d = substr($file,0,8);
    if ($d <= $date) { 
        $events[$d] = file_get_contents($dir."/".$file); 
    } 
} 
closedir($handle); 

ksort($events); 

foreach ($events as $event) {
    list($date,$location,$info) = explode("||",$event);
    print
"<tr><td>".$date."</td><td>".$location."</td><td>".$info."</td></tr>";

}

?>

Roger_Ramjet

Looks like you're getting the names of files instead of the contents, are there sub-directories in 'fold'?

Phodetheus

Been a while since I have seen something like that. Looks as though it's not the script is the problem but the upload. Make sure you can open the source in something very simple like notepad and if that's ok check to see if your FTP client is uploading in the correct mode. I do vaguely remember things like this when I used to use WS-FTP and uploaded in the wrong mode.

Phodetheus

dcastady

That doesn't seem to be the problem, because when I use the same script with the same files in the original shows.php, everything looks fine.