Text based database

Anon

I've been searching for tutorials on how to build a text based database, but no luck, could someone show me where I can find such tutorials or books?
Thank you very much.
I'm currently using MySQL, but I'd like to use a text based database instead to store some "not that important data". I've tried to build one, but having problems pulling the data out of the text file...

Anon

If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, you can do this with a standard text file...

put the contents in the file, with each row being one line of the text file. Then, separate the fields with a pipe (|) or comma or something.

When you need to process it, read the file into an array using file(), then parse each line with the explode() function.

Hope this helps,
Greg

Anon

Yes, I know the basic concept, I just want to see some examples or tutorials on how they really work.

Anon

Well, just made a small test tagwall where all the messages is stored in a text file. (http://www.justrandb.dk/tagwall/debatforum.php) Basically it's all about how you write to the file. Then it's no problem to read the text file again.

Example :

$message = "bla bla bla";
$post = "<table><tr><td>$message</td></tr></table>"

$filename = "yourfile.txt";
$flogpost = fopen ($filename , "a");
fputs ($flogpost , "$post \n<br>\n");
fclose ($flogpost);

$filename = "yourfile.txt";
$funlogpost = fopen ($filename , "e");
$idantal = fread ($funlogpost, filesize ($filename));

echo $funlogpost;

Hope this might can help you a bit.
fclose ($flogpost);

Anon

Oh yeah.. I know how to read the whole file, but I need to read some specific areas of the file, so I was thinking I'll need to use split, explode...etc