Code Help Please

[build]

Hello All

Let me say first of all I'm new to PHP

But willing to learn.

I have a program that stores data in a data file

I have a folder where it stores the dat files.
called users

They are stored like fred.dat tom.dat

Now inside these files I have

Tom
Jones
23 jones street
Jones town

When I want to look up a name of a person I have to click on one of the dat files and open it in note pad to see what is inside it then I can see the name i'm searching for.

BUT this take ages to fined the one that I want.

So how would I write a scrip that would goto the folder select all the dat files look inside them pull all the info out of them and then
put this in excel or access data base.

Or is there a free script that I could look at to see how it is done.

As always, any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

John

[sarahk]

I've been playing around with writing to file for an enhancement on a very basic content management system I downloaded from http://codewalkers.com/seecode/104.html.

The key things you will get from this are:

• how to list the contents of a directory

• how to read and write with text files

but you probably have the second one sussed. In this example they do a complete replace, not just a selected portion.

A major change I would make is to use only one text file and separate the data using pipes |

This would mean you find one text file and then run through all the data.

good luck

Sarah