I think I may have written the question wrong. I only want to display the first line. It is a news story with a headline. I only want to display the headline in the link. The output I want is: The But I am getting: The file looks like this. Does that make more sense? Thanks, -- Steve M. on 2/8/08 11:03 AM Zoltán Németh (znemeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > 2008. 02. 8, péntek keltezéssel 10.54-kor Pastor Steve ezt írta: >> > Is it possible to read each line of data from a file? >> > >> > I have a text file that has several lines on it. I only want to display the >> > first line only. >> > >> > The >> > file I have >> > looks like this. >> > >> > But outputs: >> > >> > "The file I have looks like this." > > you need nl2br() > http://hu.php.net/nl2br > > greets > Zoltán Németh > >> > >> > Here is my code: >> > >> > <?php >> > >> > >> > >> > $dir = "path/to/files/"; >> > >> > // set pattern >> > $pattern = ".txt*|.TXT*"; >> > >> > // open directory and parse file list >> > if (is_dir($dir)) >> > { >> > if ($dh = opendir($dir)) >> > { >> > >> > echo "<div class=\"spstory\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, Times, >> > serif; font-size: 12px; width: 290px;\"> >> > <div style=\"width: 285px; background-color: #FFFFCC; padding: 3px;\"> >> > <span class=\"NormalHeadRed\">Breaking News</span> >> > <br />Please check here often for breaking news stories. >> > </div> >> > <p /> >> > <span class=\"NomalText\"> >> > <ul>"; >> > >> > // iterate over file list >> > while (($filename = readdir($dh)) !== false) >> > { >> > // if filename matches search pattern, print it >> > if (ereg($pattern, $filename)) >> > if(strpos($filename,'.')>0) >> > >> > // if ($filename = str_replace('.html','',$filename)) >> > >> > { >> > $fh = fopen($dir . $filename, 'r'); >> > $filehead = fread($fh, 72); >> > fclose($fh); >> > echo "<li class=\"bn_bullet\"><a >> > href=\"/breaking_news/$filename\">".$filehead."</a></li>"; >> > } >> > } >> > echo "</ul><p /> >> > </span> >> > </div>"; >> > >> > // close directory >> > closedir($dh); >> > } >> > } >> > >> > ?> >> > >
