Topic awaiting preservation: Messages per page - PHP

Hi,

I have some text files with the UNIX-Timestamp in the name (1007525758.txt). I read them into an array and sorted them in the correct order. Now i want to display the content from every text-file. But not every file on one page. I want to limit the messages per page (for example 15 messages per page). And i want to link to the previous and next page.

I know how to do that with MySQL, but what about flat text files?

PHP?

Assuming that your files don't suddenly change (ie, new ones added...) you could put them in an array, and then display for example only 16-30 out of that array...

example:
$myfileArr = //put whatever you use to get a list of the files here, make sure it is sorted.

function display_files($firstToDisplay,$fileArray) {
for ($i = $firstToDisplay, $i < ($firstToDisplay + 15),$i++) {
if ($i > count($fileArray) {break;}
print($fileArray[$i]); //put the file here. just outputing the name for demonstration purposes.
} //of for ($i = $firstToDisplay)
} //of function display_files

display_files(1,$myFileArr);
all you have to do now is make a script, that calls this function with the appropriate variables. Ie make sure that it shows a link that passes a new value for the $firstToDisplay.
Oh and that code could use some additional error checking.

hope this helps,

Tyberius Prime

Ok, ok, ok. I'm stupid... To lazy to activate my own brain.

Thanx Tyberius Prime.