Adding to the BEGINNING of a Text File

[Anon]

Hi there,

I've got a system set up that reads a flat-file database like this:

Post Topic😛oster Name😛ost Contents

However, for a new post to be displayed at the top of the page, any new items I add to this file must be added to the top of it, not the end.

How would I go about that?

[Anon]

I guess you could read the current file into an array using file(), create a new array with your new content as the first element, then fill the rest of your new array with the old array. You could then re-write the file.

But there's probably a better way...

[Anon]

Read the file to memory, start writing a new file,
write the new information, append the old information.

[Anon]

If the file is small (i.e. less than a meg) then you can just read it into memory, otherwise, rename it, open it for writing again, the use a while loop with fgets/fputs to write the old file on the end of the new one.

[Anon]

Ok, complete newbie here! Right, so how would I modify the code below to append the new data to the beginning?

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but the search was unsuccessful :S Help would be greatly appreciated.

<?php
$filename ="text.txt";
$handle= fopen($filename,'a);
$string = "$name";
fputs($handle, $string);
fclose($handle);
?>

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Wow, very new newbie :-)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vinny/index.html#2

[Anon]

Gorgeous, thanks 🙂

[Anon]

Geez, it\'s not that newbie. I\'ve been doing PHP for nine months and had never encountered this issue before. Couldn\'t find a single mention of the solution in any of the file-related functions at php.net. Anyway, thanks for the solution, works perfectly.