[RESOLVED] PHP Archive Using Text Documents

mbrown174

Hello, Im still fairly new to php so this might seem rudimentry...
Im trying to create a blog like website. Currently I have a page which reads data from a text file, however the bigger the text file gets the longer the page will take to load. So i wish to create a sort of archive so that only the newer articles load up.

Links to old stories would be available at the bottom of the page - i.e. [1][2][3] etc.

To do this I would require a new page to be generated every so often. Perhaps a new page will be created for every 500 characters in the text file. Obviously the new page would have to have a consistant look to match other pages.

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks for any help!

Matthew

thorpe

Any particular reason your not using a database? They are made for storing data, this whole task would be so much easier and more efficient.

mbrown174

Got an answer. The reason im not using a database is that my site isnt going to be that particularly big. Plus Ive only had experience with text files and access databases - not mysql.

Heres the code should anyone want it...
<?php

$pg = isset($REQUEST['pg']) && ctype_digit($REQUEST['pg']) ? $_REQUEST['pg'] : 1;

$data = file("texts/news.txt");
$total = count($data);

$display = 20;
$end = $display * $pg;
$start = $end - $display;
$prev = $pg - 1;
$next = $pg + 1;
$chunk = array_slice($data, $start, $display);

$pages = $total <= $display ? 1 : ceil($total / $display);
$p = '<a href="'.$SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pg='.$prev.'"><<-prev</a>';
$n = '<a href="'.$SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pg='.$next.'">next->></a>';
$c = ' : page '.$pg.' of '.$pages.' : ';

if($pg == 1 && $end >= $total)
print('<<-prev'.$c.'next->>');
elseif($pg == 1)
print('<<-prev'.$c.$n);
elseif($end < $total)
print($p.$c.$n);
else
print($p.$c.'next->>');

foreach($chunk as $value)
echo $value.'';