UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting why doesn't this work?

I'm trying to put together a script that opens a text file with some info in it (seperated by "|"'s), and prints out all that info.

Here is what I have so far, but it doesn't work. I don't have an error, but it just doesn't work. And if you're wondering, this is not how the whole thing is going to work, I just wanted to see if the opening/printing of the file would work.


As an end result, I'd like to rename all the review files with numbers, then have &intro list them all, only using titles inside the file instead (much like how forumdisplay works, I think). But for right now I'd be happy to see this simple thing work. Any suggestions?

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-david
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@reviewdata = split(/|/, @data);
$writer = $data[0];
$email = $data[1];
$creator = $data[2];
$title = $data[3];
$type = $data[4];
$review = $data[5];

you should be assigning those from $reviewdata[] not data.

At any rate, it's much better to just right

my ($write, $email, $creator, $title, $type, $review) = split(/|/, @data);

well thats interesting. OK, I changed data to review data, and re-ran the script. I also renamed the file that is opened 000000.txt, but I don't think that has anything to do with...anything.

Anyway, I re-ran the script and the only thing it did different was print out "1" for $writer. Then, I changed the script using the code you provided, and this time it printed out "0" (thats a zero) for $writer. I'm purplexed.
http://www.antipopculture.org/reviews/review.cgi
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-david
Choose your future.
www.antipopculture.org

This message has been edited by evil-empire on November 01, 2000 at 04:36 PM

OK, zanardi helped me with all those problems. Well, the functional ones. New problem though. When the script prints the $review variable, it only prints whats on the first line of the file. So, if I have:

as the review, only "Nsync are horrible, they suck so much." is printed.

suggestions?

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-david
Choose your future.
www.antipopculture.org

Is don't buy thier album! in a second line? If so, and you are trying to read line by line, the second line won't be read.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

yeah...thats what I was trying to say. Now how do I fix that problem? I need it to read off of multiple lines, since all of the reviews will have multiple paragraphs.

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-david
www.antipopculture.org
Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first

Try replacing:


with this:



This message has been edited by Dave_L on November 03, 2000 at 11:50 AM