moving from .asp - FSO equivalent???

[wdglide]

I'm just starting out with php/mysql. I'm looking for tutorials or assistance on ways to go about accomplishing what I was doing with .asp's FileSystem Object. Namely, reading, and writing text files.

I am looking for an efficient way to read a text file and replace certain sections with data from the database. Right now I'm just working on the php side of the equation.

Is there a more efficient way to do this?

//define source_content file
$filename     = "templ.htm";
//open source_content for reading
$fp           = fopen( $filename,"r");  

//read source_content into var
$source_content     = fread($fp, 80000);
//close
fclose( $fp ); 

//place strings to search for into an array
$search_array = array("xx1", "xx2", "xx3", "xx4", "xx5");
//place replacement strings into an array
$replace_array = array("yy1", "yy2", "yy3", "yy4", "yy5");

//
$new_content = str_replace($search_array, $replace_array, $source_content);

echo $new_content;

I'm just looking for advice or pointers or tutorials.

TIA

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by wdglide

//define source_content file
$filename     = "templ.htm";
//open source_content for reading
$fp           = fopen( $filename,"r");  

//read source_content into var
$source_content     = fread($fp, 80000);
//close
fclose( $fp ); 

//place strings to search for into an array
$search_array = array("xx1", "xx2", "xx3", "xx4", "xx5");
//place replacement strings into an array
$replace_array = array("yy1", "yy2", "yy3", "yy4", "yy5");

//
$new_content = str_replace($search_array, $replace_array, $source_content);

echo $new_content;

I'm just looking for advice or pointers or tutorials.

If this is working, I'd use it, I suppose. One trick is this:

$source_content=fread($fp, filesize($filename));

--- this is pretty obvious, allows you to read the entire file w/o knowing its size in advance.

Other than that, I see no error checking, but I assume the "real" script has that ... lots of nice comments ... one board-specific trick: if you use

 tags instead of just [code] tags, you get syntax highlighting...

[wdglide]

Thanks!