Read & Find on Txt File

[Schwalbach]

Hey,

I made a little mailing list and have a problem with it...People can sign up more than once! This is a flash integrated system, but I just need the php tp basically do this(The codes that I do try to include are probably wrong, so just stick with me)

fopen(text.txt)
then like read(text.txt)
if ($varfromflash is in .txt file)
echo signup = false
else
echo signup = true

and the rest I should be able to handle in flash

Thanks guys,
Chase

P.S. are there any sites on the net that are for Php integrated with flash? Like I can find flash help sites, and php help sites, but no php+flash help sites...thanks again

[Schwalbach]

Ok, here is what I got so far....this is what I think I am doing wrong...the stristr thing can't read directly from the txt file...I think I need to turn text.txt into some kind of different variable so it is readable by text.txt....can anyone tell me how to do that? or a code to do that, and I will look it up? Thanks

<?php

$outReceive = "output=".$outSend;
$update = "text.txt";
$email = $outSend;
$fp = fopen($update, "a");
$line = $outReceive . "\n";
$size = strlen($line);

if(stristr("$update", "$email"))
echo "update=false";
} else {
fputs($fp, $line, $size);
fclose($fp);
echo "update=true";

echo "alldone=yes";

?>

[amchargue]

Of course it would be preferable to use a database to do this rather than txt file, but I'm assuming that's not an option for you.

Uh, I think the file funtions as documented on php.net should have some good examples for you. Basically you should be able to read a file one line at a time, or one chunk at a time if you're delimiting the text by something other than newline.

Not sure how helpful that is!

[Schwalbach]

Hey,

DB is an option, but I don't know how to use any of that, and I am trying to make it pretty "simple" so you know..

I got a problem, I know I can read files one line at a time, or all of them, but I don't know what functions to look up on php.net.

Thanks again

[Schwalbach]

I got it figured out. Thanks for all your help.