writing to a text file.

[Anon]

when you write to a text file, how can you format it..

what i mean is .. i know that \n gives you a new line, but what are the other things like that, i know that \t is there but what does it do? and what do others do?

[Anon]

also is there a way to delete everything in the file before you write to it?

[cheesehead]

Here's a list of the escape characters:

http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php#escapes

As to your other question about clearing a file. If you open the file like:

$fp = fopen( "filename.txt", 'w' );

it will empty the file (or create it if it doesn't exist) before you write into it. Open it as:

$fp = fopen( "filename.txt", 'a' );

if you want to add something to the end of the file without deleting the contents.

There are other options as well follow this to look them up:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

HTH