the code only displays the 10 random line numbers somehow again the arrays are empty, tried all tricks to see if arrays are carrieng anything but the are all empty
data file loks like : 123|name|LastN|City|Country|||etc|etc| 124|names|lastN|||etc||etc| could somebody please find the error, thanks for any help // Code start <?php $i = 0; $fp = fopen ("./../../cgi-bin/Classifieds/data/ads.data", "r"); while($tmp= fgetcsv($fp,50000,"\|")) { $array[]=$tmp; } fclose ($fp); $rand_array=array_rand($array, 10); foreach($rand_array as $line) { list($adnr, $user, $date, $listed, $hlong, $eins, $zwei, $drei, $vier, $usern, $locst, $locstaa, $locc, $funf, $sech, $email, $Url, $ClassCat, $ClassCat2, $Headstart, $Headend, $Descrip, $End1, $Endzwei, $End3, $Endvier, $Endfunf, $Endsech, $Endsieben, $Endacht, $Endne, $dreizwei, $dreidrei, $dreivier, $dreifunf, $dreisechs ) = ($line); echo " <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><a href=\"../../cgi-bin/Classifieds/classifieds.cgi?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=$adnr&query=retrieval\" target=\"_blanko\">$Endzwei $End3 </a><br></font>"; } // code end