How to: Textfile as database ?

[Pellefant]

Hello!

Can anyone please give me an easy small example how to use a textfile as a database. (I want to store two variables, $a and $b, $a is an int and $b is a char)

(How to save the variables, update them, and read them from the textfile....)

I know I should use fopen, fread, fwrite and such, but I don't get the pieces together. 🙁

Please help

Huge thanks in advance.

[JakesSA]

you ca use the switch statement to branch the logic.

[Pellefant]

Anyone knows any example...? please

[prock]

Pellefant,

I just wrote a small weblogging system that uses flat files instead of a database to store my entries. There's a lot of logic that happens, but it basically boils down to this

read the file up into an array using file() function.
convert to a multi-dimensional array using a foreach loop and exploding each line.

Now you have your array up in memory and you traverse it/sort it/do whatever just like you would any array. Dealing with a multi-dim array is tricky but you'll figure it out.

After you're done doing stuff to the file, just implode everything back down to a single dim array and write it back to the file.