php has to write in txt

mven

hy! ive got one problem. i made a texte.php file, whitch works perfectly an writes all the values into texte2.txt.
But i would like it to write the values every time, the script gets opened, into a different texte_.txt file. I mean: the first time the script gets started, it has to write in texte1.txt the next time into texte2.txt. so just always "1" more. How can i do this? Please explain it easy, so that i can implement it!

thanks a lot, marco

file texte.php:

<?php
$filelocation="texte2.txt";
$newfile = fopen($filelocation,"a");
$add = "&tx_t=$tx_t&user=$user";
fwrite($newfile, $add);
fclose($newfile);
include($filelocation);

etully

Method #1: Database
Create a database with a table with one int field called text_counter
In your script, read the value of that field, increment the number, write the new number to the database
then in your script, you say: $filelocation = "texte" . $number . ".txt";
If you choose this method, there are lots of tutorials on the Internet for creating tables in MySQL databases and reading / writing the table from PHP.

Method #2: Storing the counter in a text file
Write a text file called text_counter.txt with a number in it.

Chmod 777 the file so that it's writeable.
In your script, read the text file, increment the number, write the new number to the text file
then in your script, you say: $filelocation = "texte" . $number . ".txt";
If you choose this method, there are lots of tutorials to show you how to use fopen to read and write text files.

The first method is just a good skill to have - you'll find a trillion uses for databases but it's going to keep you busy for a few days as you learn the database thing. The second method is simple (especially since you're already writing text files) but the skill is less valuable in the long run because you're going to find it's hard to seach text files as your needs get more complicated over time.

Weedpacket

Method #3: look at the file names already present ([man]glob[/man] would be a good way to get a list of those), and then use the first number that's larger than any used by the list. But this assumes that the files are not being deleted.

dalecosp

Weedpacket wrote:
([man]glob[/man] would be a good way to get a list of those)

Whoa ... when did that get into there? 4.3? I need to get out more often ....