Reading a file like Database ??

[Anon]

Hi all,
I am building a sitebuilder. I dont want to use database to save the contents of user's pages, the contents will be required only when user what to update his/her pages. for example..I have stored the home pahe contents in a "home.txt" file..in this format...

Heading:Welcome to my tabish's home page
Para:I am so and so working in a web developing company so on blah blah blah
Heading:Who am I
Para:I am blahblah blahblahblahblah blah blah
blahblahblahblah

and so on..
Well now when user want to edit his/her home page "I want to show each "Heading" in a textbox and each "Para" in a textarea..

So how could I get each Heading and "Para" from a "home.txt"..As I am really lasy about the reguler expression..Please help me..

Thanx
Tabish

[Anon]

Hi all,
now I can read the way I asked. But still have a problem .. I want to print the contents which come after "Heading:" and "Para:" ?? How could I do that ???

Thanx
Tabish

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This is exactly why you should be using a database.
If you use textfiles, you will just end up writing a database-like interface to your files.

If you really insist on using text files, try reading the file into memory as an array:

$array=file("file.txt");
then you can loop through all elements of the array
and you can check if the element (string, one line from the text) begins with "heading" etc.

When you come to the body (is that para in your example?)
you can just print every element after the one that begins with "para:"

[Anon]

Hi Vincent,
Thanx for your suggestion. I did it actually, now it's eorking fine.
I want to ask you a personal question, How come you always answer for each and every one ? What are you doing ? (If you dont mind ) 🙂

Thanx again
Tabish

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I work too hard, that's the problem :-)

[Anon]

Yeah,
It's true that you work very hard..Keep it up..God bless you..

Have fun
Tabish