why won't this work!!!

Anon

if ($file=fopen("file.txt", "a")) {
flock($file, 2);
fseek($file, 0, -1);
fwrite($file,"
crap goes here...");

why won't it append data to the beginning of the file? Using r+ just over writes the file...doesn't append..

Someone wanna tell me what combination I can use to get this damned thing to work?

Anon

append appends to the end of a file, not the beginning.

Anon

"append data to the beginning"
which one do you want "append" or "to the beginning"?
Why use a seek when you've already opened to append mode?

Anon

ok.. I want to ADD data to the file at the beginning of the file, not the end as the a suggests... so basically I want an apend in reverse... heh.. if there is such a way.

I did a seek because I wanted to start at the beginning of the file, but not over write the existing data.. make sense?

dannys

Try something more like:

Function Prepend($sFilename,$sData)
{
if ($hFile=@fopen($sFilename,"a+"))
{
rewind($hFile);
$sData.=fread($hFile,filesize($sFilename));
ftruncate($hFile,0);
fwrite($hFile,$sData,strlen($sData));
fclose($hFile);

	return TRUE;
}

return FALSE;

}

if (Prepend("myfile.txt","Data to prepend to my file!"))
echo "Prepend was successful!!";
else
echo "Prepend didn't work - Couldn't open file 🙁";