posted August 02, 2000 06:09 PM            

'r' - Open for reading only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file.

'r+' - Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file.

'w' - Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'w+' - Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'a' - Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

'a+' - Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

None of these do what I want though one of them say they will. I need to write input from a form to the beginning of a text file. But when I use

$myFile = fopen("file.txt","r+");

it writes to the beginning of the file. But when I execute the script again it writes OVER what was previously there. I need it to INSERT the input from the form. Please help!

I'm fairly new to PHP so if I've not included some valuable information let me know.

posted August 02, 2000 08:18 PM            

$myFile = fopen("file.txt","a");

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posted August 03, 2000 01:24 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by freebsd:
Ya know what a newline is -> \n

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posted August 03, 2000 01:32 AM         

This is a common sense and very basic. Okay, let say you open a new text document with notepad, type something, then press ENTER, what does it do? then you are on the 2nd line, that is, the file pointer is now at your 2nd line. So the whole idea is to go downwardly, not upwardly as you thought.

the newline ( \n ) is to automated the task of pressing ENTER. So your new record is following line by line from top to bottom. If you set the filepointer to the first line and enter something, of course, your existing first line will get overwritten. And, that first line will NOT move to second line automatically.

posted August 03, 2000 01:53 AM         

Then your existing lines will get overwritten. It's all about file pointer, the existing lines don't move down automatically when there are new lines appending.

>>I want these 3 new lines of text to be INSERTED.

Once again, if you want to keep your existing lines in that file, use 'a'.

posted August 03, 2000 02:04 AM            

Read the file into an array and then add the line you want to be in the beginning of the file to the last cell in the array, then print the array to a file in descending order using something like this:

for ($i=count($array); $i>-1; $i--){
write to file
}

posted August 03, 2000 02:50 PM            

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probably you can check it out ftell() and fseek() functions also.
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see the manual for the details...

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