Opening a file

[Anon]

I know how to open a file and state the pointer at the end of the file like that:

$file = "guestbook.txt";
$fd = fopen($file, "a+");
$contents = fread($fd, filesize($file));
echo $contents;
fclose($fd);

but i want to print the file to screen from end to begining.

Like that...

guestbook.txt

this is top
bla
blah
blah blah

this is bottom

and when i print it to screen it must be like that:

this is bottom
blah blah
blah
bla
this is top

please help me!

[einhverfr]

OK. Here is the basic story (check out the manual pages for each of the commands).

Open the file for reading (pointer at the beginning).

while ($string = fgets ($FILE, 1000)
{
array_push ($stack, $string);
}// reads the file into an array 1 line

while ($string = array_pop ($stack))
{
echo $string;
}

Anyway, this is off the top of my head. Hoe it is useful. This should be close to what you need to read the file line by line into your array and then print them out LIFO (Last In, First Out).

Best of luck,
Chris Travers