[nassau]

i have the following function in my index.php:

PHP Code:

<!-- #1 -->

<? include("../_includes/trackcode0.php");?>

1.<?/* track number */?>

<? include("../_includes/trackcode1.php");?>

<? include('tracks.php'); print $track1;?><?/* track name - UPPERCASE */?>

<? include("../_includes/trackcode2.php");?>

<? include('tracks.php'); print $track1;?><?/* track name - LOWERCASE */?>

<? include("../_includes/trackcode3.php");?>

<? include('tracks.php'); print $track1;?><?/* track name - LOWERCASE */?>

<? include("../_includes/trackcode4.php");?>

this retrieves data from the file tracks.php.

how can i loop this function for as many times as there are $integers in the tracks.php file? i also need the numbers in the function to increase with 1 for each loop.

[sufyan]

What's the structure/contents of your track.php?

[Acecool]

for each time you open and close php it takes a bit of cpu away, try this:

PHP Code:

<?php

include("../_includes/trackcode0.php");



// track number

echo '1.';



//track name - UPPERCASE

include("../_includes/trackcode1.php");

include('tracks.php');

echo $track1;



//track name - LOWERCASE

include("../_includes/trackcode2.php");

include('tracks.php'); 

echo $track1;



// track name - LOWERCASE

include("../_includes/trackcode3.php");

include('tracks.php'); 

echo $track1;

include("../_includes/trackcode4.php"); 

?>

[nassau]

Originally Posted by sufyan

What's the structure/contents of your track.php?

PHP Code:

<? $track1="real talk";?>

<? $track2="club beats";?>

<? $track3="across the street";?>



<? $message="Please contact me for CD's or links to more tracks online.";?>

[nassau]

Originally Posted by Acecool

for each time you open and close php it takes a bit of cpu away, try this:

snip

i had no idea about that, thanks! you guys are great, very helpful!

[nassau]

just to give u an idea of what i want to do. i want to be able to post playlists to my server. i want the time and effort needed to construct the playlists to be minimal. basically i want to just make a file (tracks.php) containing the song names and have my index.php look at the file and echo whatever songs are there. i want the code in the tracks.php to be minimal - none if possible. the best thing would be if i could format the file like this:

real talk
club beats
across the street

and have the function understand that each new line is a new item. i don't know if that's possible. if not, the current format (<? $track1="real talk";?> ) is ok too.

[moronovich]

Originally Posted by Acecool

for each time you open and close php it takes a bit of cpu away, try this:
...

Yes, you are right. Anyway it's not a part of PHP crash policy. Only stack overflow is concerned as serious threat through PHP coding.

[moronovich]

Originally Posted by nassau

just to give u an idea of what i want to do. i want to be able to post playlists to my server. i want the time and effort needed to construct the playlists to be minimal. basically i want to just make a file (tracks.php) containing the song names and have my index.php look at the file and echo whatever songs are there. i want the code in the tracks.php to be minimal - none if possible. the best thing would be if i could format the file like this:

real talk
club beats
across the street

and have the function understand that each new line is a new item. i don't know if that's possible. if not, the current format (<? $track1="real talk";?> ) is ok too.

we can make it simple. please have a look at PHP Manual PCRE functions first. We'll start from there.

[nassau]

Originally Posted by moronovich

we can make it simple. please have a look at PHP Manual PCRE functions first. We'll start from there.

i'm sorry, i feel like a dumbbot... but i don't understand what to make of the info about PCRE. i went to http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php to read up but.. no cigar.

i don't want to keep asking you about simple stuff but if you want to explain, please do.

thanks

[moronovich]

Ok Nassau, let's move a bit. I won't use regex check method here.
Assume song titles is placed in your tracks.php

Code:

//File tracks.php -> don't include this one in the file
Real Talk
Club Beats
Across the Street
Orient Blue
Vinizzi
Valentine
//EOF -> don't include this one in the file

and now your index.php

PHP Code:

//File index.php

$mp3Folder = '/data/mp3/';

$crLf = "\n";

print 'Welcome to my MP3 Server<br />';

print 'Here you can click and play our mp3 collection<br />';

$fp = fopen('tracks.php','rb');

flock($fp,LOCK_SH);

$content = fread($fp,filesize('tracks.php'));

flock($fp,LOCK_UN);

fclose($fp);

$row = explode($crLf,$content);

//Simpler method for above code

//$row = file('tracks.php');

for($i=0; $i<count($row); $i++) {

     print '<a href="'.$mp3Folder.$row[$i].'.mp3">'.$row[$i].'</a><br />';

} 

my suggestion:
this code algorithm is not optimum. it's better that php engine searches for song title in a localized folder and then display all mp3 files in the folder automatically.