The system will generate a folder structure like the folloing

    Year    Month    Day        Newsfile
—————————————————————
    2007 -
          |- 01 -|
                 |- 30 -|
                         |-timestamp.news
                         |-timestamp.news
                        |-timestamp.news
                 |- 31 
          |- 02 
                   |- 1 
                 |- 2 
          |- 03 
          |- etc

Programmed by Christian Haensel, christian@chftp.com, http://www.chftp.com
Exclusively published on weberdev.com

function datefolders() {
    // This function checks the existance of the news directory for this day
    // and, if necessary, creates the directories for year, month and day.
    $checkyear    =    date("Y");
    $checkmonth    =    date("m");
    $checkday    =    date("d");   
    // Checking for this year's folder
    if(!is_dir("news/".$checkyear)) {
        mkdir("news/".$checkyear,0755);
    }
    // Checking for this month's folder
    if(!is_dir("news/".$checkyear."/".$checkmonth)) {
        mkdir("news/".$checkyear."/".$checkmonth,0755);
    }
    // Checking for today's folder
    if(!is_dir("news/".$checkyear."/".$checkmonth."/".$checkday)) {
        mkdir("news/".$checkyear."/".$checkmonth."/".$checkday,0755);
    }
}

function readnews($day,$month,$year,$number) {
    $nfile    =    file("news/".$year."/".$month."/".$day."/".$number);
    $i = 1;
    $date_ex    =    explode(".", $number);
    $timest        =    $date_ex[0];
    $news_date    =    date("d.m.Y - H:i", $timest);
    foreach($nfile as $nline) {
        if($i==1) {
            echo '<h1>'.$nline.'</h1>';
        } elseif($i==2) {
            echo '<h3>'.$nline.'</h3>';
        } else {
            echo $nline."<br>";
        }
    $i++;
    }
    echo '<p><small>Posted '.$news_date.'</small><p>';
    echo '--------------------------------------------------------------';
   
   
}

function check_news() {
    // This function checks for news in the directories. It will take URL-Parameters
    // like day, month and year. If thos are not set, it will take the current date
    if(eregi("\.", $_GET['day']) || eregi("\.", $_GET['month']) || eregi("\.", $_GET['year'])) {
        die("No hacking");
    }
    if(isset($_GET['year'])) {
        $newsyear    =    $_GET['year'];
    } else {
        $newsyear    =    date("Y");
    }
    if(isset($_GET['month'])) {
        $newsmonth    =    $_GET['month'];
    } else {
        $newsmonth    =    date("m");
    }
    if(isset($_GET['day'])) {
        $newsday    =    $_GET['day'];
    } else {
        $newsday    =    date("d");
    }   
    // Check for news in the directory
    $news_arr        =    array();
    $newsfolder        =    @opendir("news/".$newsyear."/".$newsmonth."/".$newsday) or die("No news for this time");
    while($news        =    readdir($newsfolder)) {
        if(eregi(".news", $news)) {
            array_push($news_arr, $news);
        }
    }
    sort($news_arr);
    $news_arr = array_reverse($news_arr);
    foreach($news_arr as $news) {
        readnews($newsday,$newsmonth,$newsyear,$news);
    }
}

function showaddform() {
    // Set the access password here
    $mypass        =    "mypassword";
    if(!isset($_POST['pass'])) {
        echo '
        <form name="login" action="#" method="POST";
        Login:
        <input type="password" name="pass">
        <input type="submit" value="Login">
        </form>';
        die;
    }
    if(isset($_POST['pass']) && $_POST['pass'] != $mypass) {
        echo '
        Login failed.<p>
        <form name="login" action="#" method="POST";
        Login:
        <input type="password" name="pass">
        <input type="submit" value="Login">
        </form>';
        die;
    } elseif(isset($_POST['pass']) && $_POST['pass'] == $mypass) {
        echo '
        <div style="padding:5px; border:1px solid #000000;">
        <b>Add News</b><p>
        <form name="addnews" action="#" method="POST">
        <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Title:</td><td><input type="text" name="title">
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
            Header:</td><td><input type="text" name="header">
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
            Text:</td><td><textarea name="text"></textarea>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2">
            <input type="Submit" value="Add news">
            <input type="hidden" name="pass" value="'.$_POST[pass].'">
            <input type="hidden" name="action" value="addnews">
            </td>
        </tr>
        </table>
        </form>
        </div>
        ';
    }
   
}

function doadd() {
    $nowyear    =    date("Y");
    $nowmonth    =    date("m");
    $nowday        =    date("d");   
    $ntitle        =    $_POST['title'];
    $nheader    =    $_POST['header'];
    $ntext        =    $_POST['text'];
    $ntimest    =    time();
    $newfile    =    fopen("news/".$nowyear."/".$nowmonth."/".$nowday."/".$ntimest.".news", "w+");
    $newstext    =    $ntitle."\n".$nheader."\n".$ntext;
    fwrite($newfile, $newstext);
    fclose($newfile);
    echo 'News added';
}


function checkadd() {
    if($_GET['add'] == "true") {
        showaddform();
    }
    if($_POST['action'] == "addnews") {
        doadd();
    }
   
}
// Do it all
checkadd(); datefolders(); check_news();
?>