[RESOLVED] Help with Fwrite

[joebebus]

I have a website that has a news area, and I wanted to add a submission box so that all of the moderators could post. But so far I haven't found any good methods of doing this. Does anyone know of some good methods for creating a script that will make a HTML file that looks something like this:

<br />
<p>Second Post</p>
<br />

<br />
<p>First Post</p>
<br />

So far everything I have tried either puts the pointer at the bottom or puts the pointer at the top but overwrites things as it goes. Any ideas?

[dagon]

the obvious answer i to use a data base instead of a flat file

[bradgrafelman]

If you can't use a database, then you should first realize that your question has nothing to do with [man]fwrite/man; it's [man]fopen/man that defines which mode PHP opens a file in.

Basically, for this situation, you just need to fopen() the file such that PHP appends to it (rather than truncating to 0 length, a.k.a. deleting the previous contents), and, since PHP automatically advances the internal pointer to the end of the file, [man]fseek/man back to the beginning of the file before writing data.

[joebebus]

Thank you for all your quick replies. I do realize that using MySQL would be a better solution then using FWrite() (with FOpen()), but I was wondering how you would do it this way. Problem solved, thanks to all!