PHP file problem!

maxsslade

I have a user input section on my site and i have a sort of guestbook, but when people submit things they always end up at the bottom of the page, (the newest submits at the bottom) how can i make the newest posts be at the top?? here is my code if it helps:

<head>
<title>Le Garagiste - News Updater</title>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="include/legstyle.css">


<?php
// Written by Maxwell Scott - Slade. Copyright 2001.

// Variables.
$date = HTMLSpecialChars($date);
$subject = HTMLSpecialChars($subject);
$log_file = "include/newsmsg.inc";

// if crap
if ($date == "")
{
echo "The form was not filled in correctly, please try again.";
exit;
}
elseif ($subject == "")
{
echo "The subject field was not filled in correctly, please try again.";
exit;
}
elseif ($message == "")
{
echo "The message field was not filled in correctly, please try again.";
exit;
}
else
{
echo "The news section has been updated succesfully.";
}

// Whats written to the file.
$to_log = "

$posttype - $subject
$message
Posted on: $date

 
<hr>
";

// Write the contents to the file.
$fp = fopen($log_file, "a");
$fw = fwrite($fp, $to_log);
fclose($fp);
?>

</head>

Please try and help me, Max Slade

craigh

the reason that occurs is because you are appending the new information to the end of a file. I can't remember the answer right off, but I remember a very clever solution was posted to the forums a month or so ago. If you search you should come up with it.

Anon

You cannot "append" in the middle of a file. You either want to use a database so that you can retrieve sorted entries, or you want to mark where in the file you want to insert.

One ad-hoc method is to have a token in your file that indicates where you want to insert data.

HTML content
...
<<<<<<<< INSERT HERE >>>>>>>>
...
More HTML content
...

Then you want to read the file into memory, replace the <<<..>>> with <<<..>>> plus your HTML addition, and write the whole file back to disk.