[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by maxoblovsky

I'm not sure exactly how your code was intended to work, but it appears that you check each line of news.tct for "|" which are used to divide that line into two parts ($pieces[0] and [1]) that are then just outputted concatenatedly so the output is just the text without the pipes. I think maybe you intended "|" to seperate different entires but you didn't realize that file() reads each line into a new element in the array.

Sorry that I didn't elaborate on that, the file news.txt which contains all of the news looks like this:

Date|Poster's Name|News Title|News Story

And yes, the | is used to separate each section.

Originally Posted by Raven_Writer

If at all possible, would you be able to use a database like MySQL?

If not, then why not just write the newest news information at the top of the file? I believe there's a way to set the file pointer to the beginning of the file before you write.

(I can't supply code for doing the file stuff...I've had issues with doing that in the past)

I do have access to three MYSQL databases, but I haven't yet learned how to interface with MYSQL yet. Also, I use the array_reverse() function to read the newest news from the top of the file, I just need some way where I can just get the newest five stories to display.