Find ID, Edit second tab??

mycro

This is a kind of hard question...

I want to create a page where I enter a unique ID which is in a text file. I then want it to be able to find this ID, and edit the second tab of that line with the text entered into another textbox.

It might sound confusing, but I want to be able to edit the second \t in a text file that matches the ID #. Can I do this? I tried a few things that didn't work very well. Thanks!

(PS: This will be for modifying news entries. No sql :i)

shawon22

here u go


$data = file($fileloc);
$id = "22";

for($i=0; $i<count($data); $i++)
{
     if(eregi('\t\t' . $id, $data[$i], $results))
          $found= $results[0];
}

mycro

What does $results do? I'm just trying to find a way to incorporate this into a form

shawon22

it suppos to find the string $id. could u post ur text file so i could take a look at it?

mycro

This is what the data file looks like:

<!-- ID: 212047 -->	Sunday,_July_13_2003 / SUBJECt <br>Posted by: Username<br>MESSAGE

This is essentially what the code that posts the info is like

<?php
$fw=fopen("data.txt","a");

fputs($fw,"<!-- ID: $idbox -->\t");
fputs($fw,"$date / $subject Posted by:&nbsp; $poster \t");

$newMess = str_replace("\n", "<br />", $message); 
fputs($fw, "$newMess \n");

fclose($fw); 

?>

I wont actually be editing the second tab, more like the third... Thanks!

shawon22

$data = file($fileloc);

for($i=0; $i<count($data); $i++)
{
$dataArr = explode("\t", $data[$i]);

echo "Tab 1: " . $dataArr[0] . "Tab 2: " . $dataArr[1] . "....etc<br>";

}