Writing variables to text file

[Anon]

I'm sure I'm just missing something minor here, but none the less I still can't seem to fix it. I want to have a form which writes a variable to a text file. Then I want to call it back up later on in my script.

i.e.
$label="navel";
I don't know how to figure this out so any assistance is welcomed.

• MrDanny

[kailien]

fopen();

fwrite();

fread();

read these functions in the manual

[Anon]

I just finished with something exactly like this...

what I did was have the form on one page (I included the vars to start with so I could load the currecnt values into the form)
then the submit button lead to another page.
this other page had something like this in it...
<?php
$sf = "<?php\n";

$sf .= "\n\$variable = \"$HTTP_POST_VARS[variable]\";";
-^-repeat for other variable-^-

$sf .= "\n?>";

$setfile = fopen("settings.txt", "w");
fwrite($setfile, $sf);
fclose($setfile);
}
?>

then to use them later on you just
include("settings.txt");
at the start of the file you want to use them in and just use them as you would if you had just declared them