File problem. HELP!!!

[Anon]

Hi!! How would I do this!!

I have a chat script and when someone logs in it copys their username to a txt file. It does each username on a different line. The problem is, I want to print each username on a different line. It may seem like a dumb question but I am new to PHP. How would I do this?

Another problem is. When the user logs out of the chat I would like to delete that users username from the file. How would I do this. Please someone help. I am going crazy.

Any help appreciated.

Thanx

Martin

[Anon]

you can use fopen() function to open the file and write to it using fwrite().

remember to open the file with 'a+' argument which will open it in append more, which writes the new entry to the file at the end of it.

to delete an entry, you will need to do bit more of a work. first read the entire file in to an array using file() function, then run a for loop to get the required username, and delete it. then open the file with 'w' mode (re-writing the entire file, NOT appending) and re-write the entire array back to it.

lookup the php.net for further information for the above mentioned functions.

hope this helps...
may be someone else has a better idea .. 🙂

Daarius...