reading in multiarray

[Jon Slaughter]

I wrote some code to read in a file

and I'm curious as to is this is a decent way to do it or if there is a much
more elegant way. Essentially I want to convert a text file that into a ul
in html for my nav menu. This way I can easily add and remove links without
messing with any other code(Except of course where the link points to).

Anyways, the code works as far as getting the links into a multi-array that
I can work with but not sure if its the best way or not.

--------Links.txt--------
Home
About
Mathematics
-Tutorials
-Works
-Other
-Misc
Computers
-Tutorials
-Misc


<?php
echo 'Opening Links.txt...<br >';

$lines = file('./Links.txt');

// Get links into array
$s = 0;
$k = -1;
foreach ($lines as $line_num =$line)
{

if ($line[0] != '-')
{
$s = 0;
$k++;
$Links[$k][$s] = $line;
} else
{
$s++;
$Links[$k][$s] = $line;

}

}

// print links.
foreach ($Links as $link)
{
foreach ($link as $llink)
{
echo "$llink<br> ";
}
}


?>

Thanks, Jon

[Steve]

Re: reading in multiarray


"Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@ Hotmail.comwrot e in message
news:NORVh.1282 $H_.157@newssvr 21.news.prodigy .net...
|I wrote some code to read in a file
|
| and I'm curious as to is this is a decent way to do it or if there is a
much
| more elegant way. Essentially I want to convert a text file that into a ul
| in html for my nav menu. This way I can easily add and remove links
without
| messing with any other code(Except of course where the link points to).
|
| Anyways, the code works as far as getting the links into a multi-array
that
| I can work with but not sure if its the best way or not.

create table menu
(
id int not null primary ,
parent int null default 0 ,
node varchar(255) not null ,
action text not null
);

now traverse the data to link each node to it's parent. you may only want to
run this once. in that case, save the menu in a session var. if that var
isn't set, you know you should build the menu again.

i know i'm talking about databases, however a file is not an adequate
solution...espe cially the kind of format you're talking about. an xml file
*could* be a close second to what i've proposed and you could utilize xslt
to render the menu. however, it's not as easily maintained as db data.

[gosha bine]

Re: reading in multiarray

On 20.04.2007 00:11 Jon Slaughter wrote:

I wrote some code to read in a file
>
and I'm curious as to is this is a decent way to do it or if there is a much
more elegant way. Essentially I want to convert a text file that into a ul
in html for my nav menu. This way I can easily add and remove links without
messing with any other code(Except of course where the link points to).
>
Anyways, the code works as far as getting the links into a multi-array that
I can work with but not sure if its the best way or not.

Your code looks ok to me, however it won't work with deeply nested
structures. Perhaps more scalable would be to store data in XML format.

--
gosha bine

extended php parser ~ http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
blok ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok

[Jon Slaughter]

Re: reading in multiarray


"gosha bine" <stereofrog@gma il.comwrote in message
news:462879c1$0 $2890$6e1ede2f@ read.cnntp.org. ..

On 20.04.2007 00:11 Jon Slaughter wrote:

>I wrote some code to read in a file
>>
>and I'm curious as to is this is a decent way to do it or if there is a
>much more elegant way. Essentially I want to convert a text file that
>into a ul in html for my nav menu. This way I can easily add and remove
>links without messing with any other code(Except of course where the link
>points to).
>>
>Anyways, the code works as far as getting the links into a multi-array
>that I can work with but not sure if its the best way or not.

>
>
Your code looks ok to me, however it won't work with deeply nested
structures. Perhaps more scalable would be to store data in XML format.

Right now I'm not worried about more than 2 deep because I initially wrote
my code and did my graphics only for 2D. Later I'm after I finish my web
site I'm thinking about making it much more robust and redo everything(Sinc e
I have learned a lot of new stuff already(first time doing html/css/php
crap). I have a few ideas but I guess I really just need to get me a site
up first and then I can worry about making it better.


Thanks,
Jon

[C.]

Re: reading in multiarray

On 20 Apr, 11:30, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@ Hotmail.comwrot e:

"gosha bine" <stereof...@gma il.comwrote in message
>
news:462879c1$0 $2890$6e1ede2f@ read.cnntp.org. ..
>

On 20.04.2007 00:11 Jon Slaughter wrote:

I wrote some code to read in a file

>

and I'm curious as to is this is a decent way to do it

Your code looks ok to me, however it won't work with deeply nested
structures. Perhaps more scalable would be to store data in XML format.

>
Right now I'm not worried about more than 2 deep because I initially wrote
my code and did my graphics only for 2D.

You might want to take a look at php layers menu.

C.