Appending to text files

[Server_Monkey]

Hi,

I am trying to write a journal script but I am having a few probs.

At the moment I enter the text into an HTML form and then copied to a text file. So far everything works okay but it is more of a guestbook than a journal and needs a lot more tinkering with.

The main trouble I am having is with trying to print the text file contents to the screen in reverse order. Is there a way to write the details to the text file at the begining of the file but without deleting the previous contents i.e. use the append mode but from the begining of the file as opposed to the end?

I am not quite sure which is the best way to proceed with this so any help would be appreciated.

Thnx,

James

[bernouli]

you can first read the file, and save it to $var1
then put the new string you want to save ie $newstring,
put it to the file with option "w", so that it clears all, and write it in it, than you can put the $var1 in to the file, with option "a", you write it just after the new string

[psy]

ok this will print it backwards, but if you use this-> append the message then the date/b

$arr=file("whatever.txt");
for($i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++){
	$ln=((count($arr)-1)-$i);
	echo $arr[$ln] . "<br>\n";
}

example of how i meant to write it to the file

$a=fopen("whatever.txt","a");
$date="Date [-".date("m-d-y, H:m:s") . "-]\n\n";
$msg="some message\n";
$msg.="Message:\n";
fwrite($a,$msg);
fwrite($a,$date);
fclose($a);

hope that helped