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include() multiple files? (blog script)

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:27 am
by SteveO
FYI i'm like an absolute n00b in programming period, did SOME ASP a while ago, did SOME VB (i know they're pretty much the same) and some Javascript all usually very basic stuff. So bear with me.

I'm trying to make a blog script, that will include each file (03.11.19.php(date YY.MM.DD)) in order... so that I don't have to put them all in a file, i then later i want to have it categorize the blogs per year. which is why i did the filenames the way they are... I'm VERY open to suggestions, I can get this to work with one file, and I know why it doesn't work with two, because it tries to add all the filenames into one var. $file_list But i just can't think of a way to seperate it so that i can load all those files. Thank you all for your time.

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<?PHP
$dir_name = "blogs/";
$dir = opendir($dir_name);
$file_list = "";
$files = "";
while ($file_name = readdir($dir)) &#123;
if (($file_name != ".") && ($file_name != "..")) &#123;
$file_list .= "$file_name";
&#125;
&#125;
$files .= "$dir_name";
$files .= "$file_list";
closedir($dir);
?>
Note: I got this out of PHP fast and easy web development, and so far the book has helped and i havn't finished reading it, but i really want to jump the gun and make this script... So any help is welcome.

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:49 am
by Paddy
There was a post about this a little while ago. Here is probably a different solution for you. Use scandir. It returns an array of files in a directory. So if you have all your blogs in one directory and nothing else in it this will work fine. I think for ease of use you may want to name the files with a count and date. The date you can use later to sort into years and the count you can use for sequentialisation in your php. So for instance if you anticipated 1000 entries you could use a 3 digit count and today's blog could be 00111192003.php if you are in the US.

http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

Just my suggestion. Probably an easier way. There usually is. :)

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 3:12 am
by Nay
scandir()? Wouldn't that only work with PHP5? I doubt he would have PHP5 installed, neither his host or localhost. Anyhow, from what you're doing, it's all good. You can use str_replace() to take out the .txt and then use explode() to sort out the date part. Maybe mk_time() for a certain date/time of the file you would want.

But if you want a really effective blog, why not use MySQL? Text files are not that easily manageable nor editable. Well, uploading and replacing would do but most of the time, we build entire backend systems for a blog/news site.

-Nay

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 3:31 am
by Paddy
Hmmm...I was wondering why I hadn't seen this nifty tool before. :oops:

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:11 am
by Nay
haha, it will be soon. Be sure to check right at the top of the notes which version of PHP the specific function works under next time. I was scratching my head over why $_POST['me'] or $me both works on PHP until I saw that my version had register_globals turned on.

Well, memories..........YES, that WAS a long time ago :lol:

-Nay

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:16 pm
by SteveO
well the reason why i didn't want to use MySQL was because i don't seem to have permissions to create new DBs on my server... which sucks... so, i pretty much wanted to go around that.