[thelist] PHP help with fopen (I think)

[Tara Cleveland]

Whoo hooo!!!

Much yelling and shouting in jubilation.

Simon's suggestion wasn't quite perfect. It took me about 10 minutes to
figure out why nothing was printing on the screen - my bad - I've been
staring at the screen for too long and didn't notice that there was no
mechanism for printing out the results. Doh!

And the variable names were a little off. I had to switch

$bits = explode('.', $array); // Split on full stops

to

$bits = explode('.', $contents); // Split on full stops

And then it worked!!!! Yeee haw!!!

I've been trying to sort this out for hours and hours. I guess I couldn't
get the order of imploding and exploding right. And wasn't entirely sure
what each one did. Thanks for the comments on each line. They were *very*
helpful.


Have a great weekend everyone.

Tara

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Tara Cleveland
Web Design and Consulting
http://www.taracleveland.com



> From: Simon Willison <cs1spw at bath.ac.uk>
> Here's a simple way of doing that:
>
> $array = file('home.html'); // Read file into an array
> $contents = implode('', $array); // Stick the whole file together in to
> a single variable
> $contents = strip_tags($contents); // Get rid of HTML tags
> $bits = explode('.', $array); // Split on full stops
> $first_sentence = $bits[0].'.'; // Get first sentence and put a full
> stop on the end
<snip>