[RESOLVED] reading and overwriting text fields (flatfile)

[sgray]

I've created a website which shows me what's on telly for the day, based on the name and episode it's able to pull the episode information, the time it airs, and other bits and pieces. I've created a flatfile to store the episode information in, in the following format:

Entourage--Entourage||3x17
Family Guy--Family%20Guy||5x16
Drive--Drive||1x05
Heroes--Heroes||1x21
Jericho--Jericho||1x22
Lost--Lost||3x20

Where the flatfile has following format:

ShowName--RegexSearchfortheshow||SeasonXEpisode

I'm wanting to run a script each week to increment the number on the end, to maintain the current episode for the week. I've done a bit of work with reading and writing but have always written to the end of the file. Is there going to be anyway to read the episode values and then overwrite the existing value? It'll be a piece of cake to read the number, increment it, but I have no idea how to write it back where it came from. Any ideas?

I'd also like to be able to put ||Hold on the end, suggesting that the show has currently stalled so the number doesn't increment. Once again, I'm pretty sure I can figure that out but need to know about the number writing first.

Thanks

[halojoy]

there are many tutorials
how to write read data into flatfile ( plain text file )
using 'separator' between values on each line

Most used format are the CSV Files technique = Comma Separated Values

php has got special functions() for reading / writing such CSV files

See these tutorials examples contributed in comments!
at following www.php.net links:

http://php.net/fputcsv
http://php.net/fgetcsv

put = write values to a specific file; get = read values from a specific

Also you can search www.google.com for:
1) flatfile php tutorial fopen
2) csv files php tutorial read write

Regards
halojoy
🙂

[sgray]

Thanks for the info, that's what I was after. Resolved! =)