FILO (First In Last Out)

Hello,
I have just written a small guestbook which is working well, however the first guests' comments
are always the 1st (top).
My prefered option is to always have the latest comments on top.
Is there an (easy!!!) way of doing this, like (hopefully) 1 built-in funtion.?
Thanking you in advance,

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With my kind regards,
Peter.

Well, you didn't provide much info about how it works, but if you're using SQL to store the entries, just try:

select comments from guest order by entrydate desc;

Sorry, it is just a plain old text file!
Name: Email: & Comments:
These are saved to a text file with the html <br> and other formatting added.
As I mentioned it works fine but the FILO is a refinement.
I do not have any SQL on board nor experience!

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With my kind regards,
Peter.

Peter,

This is not the most elegant way to do it (in the absence of push and pop functions) but it may get you started.

<?

if(!($myfile=fopen("guestbook.txt", "r")))
{
print"Could not open file";
exit;
}

while($myline=fgets($myfile, 255))
{
$bytes[]=ftell($myfile); // get the file pointer vals
}

for($i=0; $i<count($bytes)-1; $i++)
{
// copy to separate array minus the
// last value which is EOF
$bytelist[]=$bytes[$i];
}

rsort($bytelist); // reverse it
$bytelist[]=0; // pad the end with 0, the beginning of the file

for($i=0; $i<count($bytelist); $i++)
{
fseek($myfile, $bytelist[$i]);
$myline=fgets($myfile, 255);
print"$myline<BR>";
}

fclose($myfile);

?>

If your file has more than 255 per line, adjust accordingly....

hmm, or you could use file()

// Put Guest Book into an Array
$myarray = file("myguests.txt");
// Reverse Array
$myarray = array_reverse($myarray);

For this to work you must have PHP4 and each entry for the guest book on it's own serperate line.

Chris

[This message has been edited by Chris Pickett (edited July 13, 2000).]

You could (something like the above comment)

$file = file("text.txt");
$size = sizeof($file) - 1;
for($i=$size;$i>=0;$i--)
echo $file[$i];

whatever floats your boat

I agree that the file() function (with one of the two solutions above) is the best bet; but just for the record, PHP4 does have array_push() and array_pop():

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.array.php

[This message has been edited by scollo (edited July 13, 2000).]

Thanks peoples,
I will play around with the provided options and see what happens.
Am unable to compile PHP4 so using PHP 3.0.12.

Again thanks,

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With my kind regards,
Peter.

FILO fixed.
I ended up using a slight variation of scollo's reply.
<?
$myarray=file("GBFile.txt");
for($1=count($myarray)-1;$i>=0;$i--) {
echo $myarray[$i];
}
and it appears to work.
Thanks again.

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With my kind regards,
Peter.

OOOPS!!!! Sorry,
I had my names mixed.
The FILO problem was solved using polman's reply.
Sorry polman.

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With my kind regards,
Peter.