Re: [PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Sebastian
sorry, i forgot to put file(); Sebastian wrote: do this: $file = 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/mailing_list_database.list'; echo ''; print_r($file); echo ''; im pretty sure you'll only see 1 key.. if each has its own line, you would see something like: Array ( [0] => foo [1] => foo [2]

Re: [PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Sebastian
do this: $file = 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/mailing_list_database.list'; echo ''; print_r($file); echo ''; im pretty sure you'll only see 1 key.. if each has its own line, you would see something like: Array ( [0] => foo [1] => foo [2] => foo [3] => foo ) etc... Tom Chubb wrote:

RE: [PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] When I open the list in notepad everything is on one line with a square box character. When I open it in wordpad, it's one email address on each line. [/snip] Sounds like that there are not any newline characters in the file. You could do something like this... $theFile = fopen("http://www

Re: [PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Tom Chubb
When I open the list in notepad everything is on one line with a square box character. When I open it in wordpad, it's one email address on each line. On 04/08/05, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you sure each is on its own line (\n) ? > > if you're only getting a value of 1 it is likely

Re: [PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Sebastian
you sure each is on its own line (\n) ? if you're only getting a value of 1 it is likely putting everything on a single array key.. Tom Chubb wrote: I'm having a problem with the following code: $file = "http://www.mysite.co.uk/mailing_list_database.list";; $lines = count(file($file));

[PHP] Using File to count number of lines

2005-08-04 Thread Tom Chubb
I'm having a problem with the following code: http://www.mysite.co.uk/mailing_list_database.list";; $lines = count(file($file)); echo "$lines "; ?> I'm trying to show the number of subscribers to my visitors from a text file, but it returns a value of 1 when it should be 5000. I think it's to