Saving files upon eachother in txt file

[Anon]

i'm making a guestbook, and i don't want to use a database. how can i open a txt file save new entry's upon the old one? (i guess it has something to do with "fopen")

[Anon]

If you're adding stuff onto the end of a text file, then when you fopen() the file, use "a" as the access modifier

$file=fopen($filename,"a");

Then when you write to $file, it will be appended to the end.

If you want to write to the start of the file, there's nothing for it but to read the whole file into memory, overwrite the file with the new material, then rewrite the old contents.

[Anon]

okey, thanks for the answer.
i'll think i just have to go for a mysql database! 🙂

[tasistro]

This simple shell script will do the job too.

<?

$my_message_board_text="MESSAGE BOARD TEXT HERE";

$command_string="echo \"".$my_message_board_text."\" >> messageboardfile.txt";

$command_output=$command_string;

?>

Saludos

Gerardo