PHP function help

Question

This is the function:

function NewsDat($url="http://www.url.com/dat/news.dat", $max=5){
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 $curlresult = curl_exec($ch);
 $posts = explode("\n", $curlresult); //chop it up by carriage return
 unset($curlresult);
 $num=0; 
 $result=array();
 foreach($posts as $post){
 $result[] = explode("::", $post);
 $num++;
 if($num>$max-1){
 break;
 }
 }
 return $result; 
}
var_dump(NewsDat());

Which returns:

array(5) { [0]=> array(14) { [0]=> string(10) "1183443434" [1]=> string(1) "R" [2]=> string(46) "Here is some text"...

I need to echo: 1183443434 and Here is some text...

Can anyone help?

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Answer 1

Basic array handling?

$result = NewsDat();
echo $result[0][0]; //holds "1183443434"
echo $result[0][2]; //holds "Here is some text"

But I don't know if the values are always at this positions when you run your function.

Answer 2

Well as NewsDat return an array of arrays, if you need this two fields on each lines, this should do the trick:

$news = NewsDat();
foreach($news as $single_new)
{
 echo $single_new[0] . " - " . $single_new[2] . "\n";
}

If you only need these two fields, just:

$news = NewsDat();
$field1 = $news[0][0];
$field2 = $news[0][2];
echo $field1 . " - " . $field2 . "\n";