[Resolved] File Writting and AS400's

Kudose

Hello all. It seems as if all of my time in PHP has left me in the dark with file writting.

Question 1:
When using fwrite does it overwrite everything in the file? Can you tell it what to add and where?

Question 2:
During the creation of the file, would hard-coding spaces ( & n b s p ; ) be written that way in the text file, or would the be recognized as spaces?

Purpose:
My brother asked me if taking user input from a form on the net could be written to a text file (including spaces added by admin) and saved to a text file that will be later integrated with an AS400 database.

Thank you.

dalecosp

IIRC, this would depend on, at the very least, how you called [man]fopen/man.
```
// read only

$pointer=fopen($filename, 'r');

// append

$pointer=fopen($filename, 'a');

// and 'w' ... you should really check the manpage...
```
1. A space entered in a text form would become an ASCII space. If you wished it to become the HTML non-breaking space, you could do [man]str_replace/man or somesuch prior to the write, of course...
G'luck

tommynanda

using w mode moves ur file-pointer to starting so it does overwrite new data... I mean completely overwrite... no old data left in the file. 'a' mode starts at the end of the file. We cant mention where to write, but can mention wat to write. There are some other ways to write where u want... like copying file line-by-line and add the one u want to in between and unlink() the old file

Spaces are written as is

TommYNandA

Kudose

I got it all figured out now. Thanks to all.