Hello Everyone, I've been working on a small pet project of mine. It involves link management for my site. I want to be able to tell the program how many links to display from each of my link files. The program is then to go to that individual link file, randomly pick out how ever many links I've told it to get and then display a description of each link. The description is to be hyperlinked to the actual URL of that link.
I have a directory that contains 5 text files. Those 5 files each contain 10 links. Each line in a file has two elements. The first being a url, the second being a description. The two elements are delimited by a comma. Here is what they would look like: http://www.File1.com/Link1,File 1 Link 1 http://www.File1.com/Link2,File 1 Link 2 http://www.File1.com/Link3,File 1 Link 3 My php code is actually two programs. The first program asks for my input. Basically it's a list of the file names with a text box next to each. In that text box I can choose how many links to display from each file. So let's say I choose to display 2 links from the first file, 0 links form the second file, 3 links from the third file, 0 links from the 4th file and 5 links from the fifth file. The program then writes the following to a simple text file: 2 0 3 0 5 The second program does all of the fun stuff. The first step being to open that text file and read the values: //open result file and read admin count into array $filepointer = fopen ($filename, "r"); $array_admin_count = file ($filename); fclose ($filepointer); The next step then opens the directory which contains the 5 files of links and reads each file name: //open directory and read file names $open = opendir ($dir); while ($files = readdir ($open)) { if ($files != "." && $files != "..") { $filesnames = $dir.$files; $array_of_files[] = $filesnames; } } closedir ($open); The final part is pretty beefy. This is where my problem is. This part is to open the individual link files, generate the proper amount of random links and then display the description which is hyperlinked to the url. It works if you only choose to display either 0 links from a file or 1 link from a file. If you choose anything over 1 random link, it displays the proper information, but it's mashed together. Here is the code for the final section of part two: //open files and grab random links for ($counter = 0; $counter < count($array_admin_count); $counter++) { $array_admin_count[$counter] = rtrim($array_admin_count[$counter]); if ($array_admin_count[$counter] > 0) { //Initialize: $res_string = ''; $res = array(); //expose url's in file $fileopen = fopen ($array_of_files[$counter], "r"); $array_of_links = file ($array_of_files[$counter]); fclose ($fileopen); //choose $number random lines from file $keys = array_rand($array_of_links,$array_admin_count[$counter]); //store random lines into $res array if(is_array($keys)) { foreach($keys as $key) { $res[] = $array_of_links[$key]; } }else{ $res[] = $array_of_links[$keys]; } //if randomize is on, randomize result array if($randomize_results==1) { shuffle($res); } //convert result array to string $res_string = implode("",$res); $getlink = explode(",", $res_string); print ("<a href='$getlink[0]'>$getlink[1]</a><br>"); Here's what I can figure out: Choosing 0 random links works for obvious reasons. Choosing to display 1 random link works because the array $res will look like this: http://www.File1.com/Link1,File 1 Link 1 The program then creates $res_string. Then the program explodes $res_string based on the comma delimiter into the array $getlink. Then the program displays the two elements of $getlink in the proper manner. If you choose to display more then 1 random link the program gets buggy. Let's say you choose to display 2 random links. When the program gets down to the $res array, the value of $res is: http://www.File1.com/Link1,File 1 Link 1 http://www.File1.com/Link2,File 1 Link 2 Once this happens, the next few lines of code $res_string (by implode) and the $getlink (by explode) creates havoc. I've been up all night trying to figure out a solution. I can't seem to arrive at one. Might any of you have any idea what I can do to resolve this array issue? Sorry this email is so long and my description is probably confusing. Thanks in advance, Roger PS if you wish to see the problem first hand, go here, and choose 1 link from each file. Then go back to it and choose more then 1 and see what happens: http://www.g-i-w-s.com/php/test31.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
