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Another script to display news from files in a directory

Another script to display news from files in a directory
This version does not use the UNIX ls command and works also on Windows NT

<html> 
<head> 
<title>News</title> 
</head> 
<body  bfcolor="#ffffff"> 
<h1>News</h1> 
<div  align="center"> 
<table  border="0"  cellspacing="5"  cellpadding="10"  width="90%"  bgcolor="#e0e0e0"> 

<?php 

    function  createurl($text)  { 
    //  Insert  URL  into  text 
    //  Use  the  following  syntax:  ${http://mysite.ch} 
    //  Or:  ${http://mysite.ch|My  homepage  in  Swiss} 
        $s  =  $text; 
        $a=strstr($s, '${'); 
        if  ($a)  { 
            $b=strstr($a, '}'); 
            if  ($b)  { 
                $la=strlen($a);  $ls=strlen($s); 
                $s=substr($s,0,$ls-$la); 
                $a=substr($a,2); 
                $lb=strlen($b);  $la=strlen($a); 
                $a=substr($a,0,$la-$lb);  $b=substr($b,1); 
        $ta=strstr($a, "|"); 
        if  ($ta)  { 
                    $la=strlen($a);  $lt=strlen($ta); 
            $linktext=substr($a,$la-$lt+1); 
            $a=substr($a,0,$la-$lt); 
        }  else  { 
                    $linktext=$a; 
        } 
                $s=$s. "<a  href=\"".$a. "\">".$linktext. "</a>".$b; 
            } 
        } 
        return($s); 
    }     

    //  change  this  to  the  directory  of  your  news  files 
    //  they  should  be  plain  ASCII  text  files  with  extension  ".txt" 
    $newspath  =  "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\news\\"; 

    //  Declare  array  to  hold  filenames 
    $newsfile  =  array(); 
     
    //  Create  handle  to  search  directory  $newspath  for  files 
    $hd  =  dir($newspath); 
     
    //  Get  all  files  and  store  them  in  array 
    while(  $filename  =  $hd->read()  )  { 
        $s=strtolower($filename); 
        if  (strstr($s, ".txt"))  { 
            //  Determine  last  modification  date 
            $lastchanged=filemtime($newspath.$filename); 
            $newsfile[$filename]  =  $lastchanged; 
        }     
    } 
     
    //  Sort  files  in  descending  order 
    arsort($newsfile); 
    //  Output  files  to  browser 
    for(reset($newsfile);  $key  =  key($newsfile);  next($newsfile))  { 
        $fa  =  file($newspath.$key); 
        $n=count($fa); 
        print  "<tr><td>\n"; 
        print  "<b>".date( "d.m.Y  -  H:i:s",$newsfile[$key]). "</b><br>\n"; 
        for  ($i=0;  $i<$n;  $i=$i+1)  { 
            $s=chop($fa[$i]); 
            $s=htmlspecialchars($s); 
            $s=createurl($s); 
            print  $s. "<br>\n"; 
        } 
        print  "</td></tr>"; 
    }     
     
    $hd->close(); 

?> 

</table> 
</div> 
</body> 
</html>