placing pointer at start of file

[Anon]

Hey, im pretty new to php, and i've been coding a forum which adds extra rows to tables with information on, but my problem arises because i want each new row to appear above the one before, this is because everything is written to a txt file in html, and each new entry is added to the bottom of the file. I need the new data to be added to the top of a file, i heard this can be done by setting the file pointer? How do i do this, i am using the fwrite function to write the data to the file.

Any ideas?

[Anon]

I generally try to steer people away from using txt files as a database, but if you must do this way then you should to grab the entire txt file into a string or an array (using fread or file) then add the new data then write the whole thing back to the file with fwrite(). This of course is not very effiecient and has serious problems if more than one user tries to do this at the same time.

You should reaaly look into mySQL. It's fast and free.

[yurko]

I can only agree with dvin. Take advice -- use MySQL it is really fast cool free database server.