[RESOLVED] array reverse write

ShugNorris

Hi there,

I'm trying to make a simple news poster, I'm really struggling with the array_reverse though.

<?php

$title = $_POST["title"];
$newsy = $_POST["news"];
$postedbyy = $_POST["postedby"];
$date = date("l jS F Y, g:i A");


$postedby = "<h1>$title</h1><br>$newsy</font>";
$news = "<p><small><font color=\"black\">Posted by <font color=\"red\">$postedbyy</font><font color=\"black\"><br>On $date<p></font>";
$myFile = "news1.html";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "$postedby\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "$news\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
echo "Your news has been posted<br><a href=\"http://shuginternational.x10hosting.com/news/news1.html\">View it here</a>";
php?>

This is what I've come up with so far and it works to post basic news, the news.html file will be an include on my page.

Obviously i'd like to use the array_reverse so new news is at the top?

I have been searching for hours and found a lot, if someone could incorporate that into my script and explain a little why they did it that would be great. Like I said, I'm not being lazy, just can't find what I want to know.

I know there's the implode option too, but I'd actually like to know how to write to the beginning of a file without overwriting information already there.

Once again, help appreciated.

Shug

CoderDan

This code appears to collect and save a news item.
You appear to be talking about displaying news (and wanting newest news first)
where is the code that displays the news (and I am assuming it has an array in it somewhere - only array i see in the above code is the _POST array)

Then again, your last part seems to asking a different question, but perhaps thats the key to this:
Do you mean you want to prepend the news to the file rather than appending it?

ShugNorris

I'm simply trying to prepend the latest news posting to the top of the file.
It's not the most advanced and people have suggested using mySQL tables for the task but I'm simply trying to make a news poster before I progress.

So in answer, yes, posting latest news at the top. I advanced a bit today but still dont seem to have achieved much, although there are no errors, nothing appears when posted.

<?php

$title = $_POST["title"];
$news = $_POST["news"];
$postedby = $_POST["postedby"];
$date = date("l jS F Y, g:i A");
//Gathering info
$myFile = "news1.html";
$old_content = file_get_contents($myFile);
$new_content = "<h1>$title</h1><p>$news<p>Posted by $postedby<br>$date";
//Opening and Writing...
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "$new_content\n";
$stringData1 = "$old_content\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData, $old_content);
fclose($fh);
echo "Your news has been posted<br><a href=\"news1.html\">View it here</a>";
php?>

So basically what I'm wanting to happen is that it opens the file, grabs the content and sticks in my information at the top, for a news poster.

The above doesn't work but.. what's wrong with it?

Thanks.

Shug

ShugNorris

$stringData = "$new_content\n";
$stringData1 = "$old_content\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData, $old_content);

Besides this part obviously (still doesn't work with it changed), are we able to edit posts here?!

Shug

CoderDan

heh most of us probably think it'd be easier to do in mysql 😛
anyhows, you are using old content as arg 3 of fwrite, if you simply change the comment before it to a concatenating dot then it'll work.
ie.

fwrite($fh, $stringData. $old_content);

and yeah, I edited mine to add that above sample.

ShugNorris

Thanks a lot for that mate, working!

I'll progress on to mySQL when I'm happy with PHP or would you suggest trying to do them simultaneously?

You've been a great help!

Regards

Shug

CoderDan

assuming you have mysql set up I'd go ahead and just use mysql. It's better data storage format 99% of the time, I'm a full time professional web developer and I touch files mebbe once or twice a year, and usually only to read in some data that will be put into a mysql table.