title said it all,
i have made a comment script and the comments are stored in a text file on a different line, i want to make it so it only sows the last 5 comments made.
heres what i'v go so far

PHP Code:

<?php
$handle = @fopen("comments.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
   while (!feof($handle)) {
       $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
       echo $buffer;
   }
   fclose($handle);
}
?>

any ideas?

PHP Code:

$lines = file("comments.txt");
$numlines = count($lines);
for($i = $numlines-5; $i < $numlines; $i++) {
  echo $lines[$i];
} 


file() reads the whole file into one big array.

If you're worried about the file being big and slow then you can use fgets, but the code gets messier.

Thats great but say the comments are like this;
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

It echos
5
6
7
8
9

i want it to echo
9
8
7
6
5

how do i d that?

Just flip the loop round so it starts at count-1 (since arrays start at 0) stops at count-5, and counts down by one every time instead of up.

PHP Code:

$lines = file("comments.txt");
$numlines = count($lines);
for($i = $numlines-1; $i >= $numlines-5; $i--) {
  echo $lines[$i];
} 


Ok, now i have a problem writeing comments to new lines with \n it keeps dividing them with a [] when i look inside comments.txt the comments are on the same line.

How is the writing being done?