Sort var's to txt file

[Schwalbach]

Hey everyone,

I have two var's, lets call them $user and $pass (for a login) that I want to be written to a txt file(I know, I should use mysql, but there is a reason for the txt) Anyways, I want two lines in the txt file, one to define user, and one to define pass.

Now the reason I want this is for the verification on the login, which I need a little help. Is there a function I could look up that basically looks for a line in the txt file, then reads it(I know file_get_contents) so I can do a stristr on it. The thing is, I need it to read the pass line for one var, and the user for another, but not both, and everything needs to be seperated in the array so I can use the simple stristr to see if it exists.

Thanks guys 🙂

[dalecosp]

You might cook up something with file(). Creates an array with elements seperated by the newlines in the txt file. You could concatenate every two units I guess. Might be a hack/kludge, though....

[Schwalbach]

Well, I was thinking if I just seperate the usernames and passwords whenever I write to the file, then it would work alot easier. I would just be able to do something like a read from that variable only, and just search through that line, instead of new lines, etc.

Anything on how to sort it when writing it to a file, and how to read the sorted var's and find something in them afterwards?

[dalecosp]

Well, whatever...I'd write the file thusly:

fred | fredspw
george | georgespw

And then it's

$data=file($file);
foreach ($data as $d) {
   $stuff=explode("|", $d);
   if ($stuff[0] == $_POST['user'] && $stuff[1]==$_POST['pw']) {
      $_SESSION['login']="true";
} 
if ($_SESSION['login']!="true") {   header("Location: login.php");
}