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[mikelittle]

Michel,
The recently updated list which now includes the subject of the most recent blog as a tool tip (great idea by the way), needs some more html chars escaping in it.

It's stopping my page form validating.

For instance someone had used italic tags in their subject. resulting in <i> in the tooltip. As this ends up inside an attribute of the anchor tag, it needs escaping to be <i>

Thanks,

Mike

[michel v]

Oops. Off to update this.

[.Chris]

Is there any way to limit the output? Instead of 50 something links just 10 or 20? Not in the main output, just in the way it shows up on your own site.

[michel v]

[php:1:ee4e812d8c]<?php

$how_many_links = 20;

$b2updates = file('http://cafelog.com/changes.php');
for($i=0; $i<$how_many_links; $i++) {
echo $b2updates[$i]."\n";
}

?>[/php:1:ee4e812d8c]

[mikelittle]

Thanks Michel.

A very useful tip.

[.Chris]

Thanks Michel!

(I can't help but feel stupid, I probibly could have found that on the net somewhere.)

[dotdotspace]

my only problem with this code (and note: windows, iis 5, php4.2.2 or 4.2.3) was that the for loop would show as many links as $how_many_links defined, minus 1. so i was getting 19 links when i wanted 20 (as an example).

my quick code mod lies on line 5, where the second expression was "$i<$how_many_links", it is now:

[php:1:5e7896087a]<?php

$how_many_links = 25;

$b2updates = file('http://cafelog.com/changes.php');
for($i=0; $i<=$how_many_links; $i++) {
echo $b2updates[$i]."\n";
}

?>[/php:1:5e7896087a]

[michel v]

This is pretty weird.
According to the original loop, $i goes from 0 to 24, since [0] is the first element of the array and [24] is the 25th.
Try putting echo $i; in the loop to see which values $i is assigned as the loop rolls. It just doesn't seem right that it displays only 24 elements...

[dotdotspace]

yeah i was confused too, but my mod seems to have fixed it. either way, it works now.

[dotdotspace]

and today i just saw that the script was outputting 26 instead of 25.. odd, seeing as how it did not do that yesterday. so the code is back to the way you gave it, michel. odd, again.

[mikelittle]

I too noticed that it would sometimes output one less than expected.

When I last noticed it, my page would not pass muster as XHTML compliant.

Looking into it I discovered that the last entry was an incomplete tag.

It appears that if the name of the blog has a new line in it, the code which returns an array of strings counts that as two lines, therefore two entries in the array. Hence you get one less link output.

Sorry I didn't report it at the time, I must have been busy.

Now if only I could remember which blog it was...

[dotdotspace]

mine list is exiting at either Lele's (drollery.lethien.com) or the Alicia Keyes Fan - Live News (akf.monosyllabically.com) blogs. the output is

[dotdotspace]

ideas?

[mikelittle]

As I mentioned previously. Some of the url's seem to have newlines in them.

Right this minute, the most recently updated is Lele's site. The code comes out like this:

[.Chris]

It doesn't do any of the things you all have discribed seeing it doing for me?