clearing a textfile

DJ_Polymorph

hey guys,

I've created a flash news ticker that's based off an external text file - I'm updating this text file using a PHP script called from a flash file to make it easier for a client to update their ticker...

This is my PHP code

<?php
$filename ="ticker.txt";
$handle= fopen($filename,'a');
$string = "$body";
fputs($handle, $string);
fclose($handle);
Print "_root.status=The data has been sent";
?>

My problem is this: How do I delete the last entry via this script? i.e. This script works but kind of makes a concatamer of my "body" variables when someone hits the submit button and it ends up looking like this:

&body=variableEntry1&body=variableEntry2&body=variableEntry3 etc etc when I only ever want one &body=variableEntryX field listed (the very last one) inplace of the previous ones.

I guess what I'm essentially asking for is a way to clear the old variables in the text file and replace them with the new one.

Cheers,

jayant

use write mode instead of append mode

fopen($filename,'w');

instead of

fopen($filename,'a');

DJ_Polymorph

thanx! 😃