Posted by Al on 08/04/05 15:47

Tom Chubb wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the following code:
>
> <?php
> $file = "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 do with recognising the line break but I don't know
> how to make it work!?!
>
> (I've looked on php.net for the file, fopen & count functions and
> can't find anything, although fopen mentions using the -t mode.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom

$count= substr_count($file_str, "\n");

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