editing a text file from a form.

[Anon]

Hi all!

I have a .cfg that has about 40 settings in it that need to be changed all the time.

What I need is some help with pulling the information from each line, placing in into a text boxt on a page so that is can be changed and then upadted.

I found lot of examples of printing to the screen. But nothing where you can connect to a .txt and put the var in text fields on a page for editing.

I know how to save the updated info just not get it in the boxes. This is of course easy if I were puling from a database.

Any help or starting places would be very helpfull.

Thanks,

Bill.

[blr32]

You probably want to use the file function which reads the file line by line to an array which you can then read from.

There's an example in the php manual.

[Anon]

I had the same problem, this is what someone else suggested to me. Read the informaion.
I seperated all my data with *, and then seperated the data again with New Lines.

$filedata=@file("%whateverfile here%");

// $filedata is now an array with each row as an element

$firstfield=strtok($filedata[0],"");
$secondfield=strtok("");
$thirdfield=strtok("");
.
.
.
$n_field=strtok("");

then move on to next line

$firstfield=strtok($filedata[1],"*");