fputs delete data

[nangial]

Hi there!
Im having a problem with fputs which I really can't sort out.
It should be a guestbook, but earlier posts get deleted when I submit a new one from the form.

Here it is:

$post = "$message|$name|$email|$url|\n";
$fp = fopen("mess.txt", "r+");
fputs($fp, $post);
fclose($fp);

I've tried different variants suchs as:

fopen("mess.txt", "r+b");

Im working on Win98 and Apache.

Thanks for reading a most probarly very basic problem.

/N

(Im not using MySql for the g-book, because that I already know)

[eXfil]

$fp = fopen ("$file","a"); // open the file and set it to write at end.

the switch you are using sets the file to write at the start so it will overwrite information already written.

the trick is to read the text file from bottom to top thus:

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