Opening/saving text files. fgets or fgetss ?

[exponder]

What I need to do is have php open a text file by using html forms. But, i'm not sure what to use? I have many text files, all different sizes from 1kb, to 20kb.

fgets() needs a file size, and fgetss() strips html tags unless you use 'allowable_tags', but from what I hear that doesn't work to good. To open/save text files into an html textarea form, what is the best way to go?

[theeper]

If you mean you want to be able to have the text from a text file pulled into an HTML textarea field, then when you hit submit, the text is written back to the file. I would use a combination of include() and fopen().

Include the text file to display it in the textarea field. Then fopen() it to write the data back to the text file. Don't forget to set write permissions on the text file for the user that is writing it.

[johnnyphp]

hello epper,

im new to php and that is what i also want to do. Can you do a sample script and show how that would be coded?
Thanks inadvanced.

johnny

[foofoobar]

I have a funny feeling that you guys are trying to do something that a database was intended for.

Might I suggest MySQL? It has tremendous support built right into PHP.